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From: lmb7421@ultb.UUCP (L.M. Barstow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Storage Size Limits for Apple OS's
Message-ID: <1146@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 02:24:58 GMT
References: <8908121404.AA19486@trout.nosc.mil>
Reply-To: lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu.UUCP (L.M. Barstow)
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In article <8908121404.AA19486@trout.nosc.mil> samt@pro-europa.cts.com (Sam Theis) writes:
>Comment to message from: rochester!rit!ultb!lmb7421@rutgers.edu (L.M. Barstow)
=
=Les Barstow writes:
=
=> Now for a question:  Is there any reason why a hard drive couldn't be
=> formatted in High Sierra/ISO 9660 format from GS/OS?  Does the code to
=> write to a disk exist?  Or is High Sierra for the GS limited to CD-ROM
=> only?
= 
=Even if the write capability would be available for the HS format, would you
=really want to convert a disk to that format?  If you would convert a hard
=disk to HS format, then you could only access the disk from GSOS.  All of your
=ProDOS 8 and earlier ProDOS 16 applications would be locked out from your hard
=disk.  Sounds a little less than useful to me.
= 
If the write-capability was available, I would probably switch just
about everything I *own* over to HS format.  A lot of the programs I use
now are not ProDOS-8 dependent.  Loss of some of my disk-space in
exchange for more flexability in filenames, etc...would definitely be a
step up in some cases.  I feel very restricted by the 15-character,
upper-case-and-numbers-only format of ProDOS.  When someone asked a
while back about a GS/OS-specific file system, I was all for it for the
same reasons.  What I'm looking for is a file system which frees me from
some of the constraints of ProDOS, and allows me to do more.  I don't
even care if it's DOS 3.3 updated to handle subdirectories and a larger
disksize.  I just want something which gives me freedom.

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