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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: More on File System Translators (FSTs)
Keywords: FSTs
Message-ID: <11187@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 29 Sep 89 21:55:56 GMT
References: <404@fawlty.towers.oz> <4454@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4454@internal.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>	It's not that simple, because the Appleshare FST knows
>	nothing about the HFS disk structure used on Macintosh
>	volumes.

Ah, but the Appleshare/HFS translator on the Mac does!
	IIGS : appleshare : HST
	     ^		  ^ use the Mac's
	     have this

Not that I think that's a good way to implement it; I don't.

I'd rather have the DOS 3.3 FST first, because most Mac disks
are not of use in the IIGS environment.