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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Frustrated hacker sees the light (i.e. APDA)
Message-ID: <35101@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 89 20:49:02 GMT
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In article <12083@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>[...]
>The GS/OS ref vol 1 is supposed to document FST's (yay!) so I have been
>jumping the gun and asking for something which is only an APDA membership away.

Before you get -too- happy, let me guarantee you that the GS/OS Reference
does -not- tell you how to -write- FSTs.  It "documents" them only in the
sense that it give you a lot of details about what the existing ones do (for
example, what happens when several users try to open the same file on
AppleShare using class 0 calls?) and how to make the various FST-specific
calls.

The discussion of a couple weeks ago is not obsolete--for the forseeable
future, FSTs come from Apple.
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