Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Another 1.4 Request (was: Re: Reading a 3.5" floppy on an XT bri...) Keywords: CROSSDOS MSDOS ATARIDOS DOS-TO-DOS Message-ID:Date: 1 Oct 89 04:21:21 GMT References: <1638@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Distribution: na Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 28 With the advent of MFM.DEVICE, doesn't it sound like 1.4 should include the same capabilities as the Mac's SuperDrive? I got very jealous listening to a radio commercial by Apple about how some company can collate all their data from all their computers on the "Mac With SuperDrive" when doing their presentations. Will 1.4 be able to automatically detect a file system and switch drivers? I know that FFS will now read OFS disks (under 1.4) but is that because it switches drivers or because it handles things as special cases when there are differences? If 1.4 can/could autoswitch, it would seem that automatically detecting MS-DOS/ST disks, FFS, OFS, C-64, etc disks and reading them would be a VERY big deal. I *think* the Mac needs special software to do it; being able to access those files in all the "usual" ways would be great. Best of all, this is something that's do-able; not a pipe dream. (Of course, everyone would have to update their drivers to support the new Tscafd Standard... oh, did I mention that I named the standard after myself :-) [Tom's Super Cool Auto Format Detection]) -Tom -- Drew University -- Tom Limoncelli C M Box 1060 -- limonce@pilot.njin.net P O Box 802 -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet Madison, NJ 07940 -- 201-408-5389