NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/apple2/26147

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From: [e-mail] (Frank Lowney, Frank Lowney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs and Apples IIGS
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Date: 30 Dec 92 15:48:37 GMT
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Please be aware of the fact that the System 6 High Sierra FST has a bug
which prevents reading text files on an Apple CD-ROM.  I discovered this
while trying to use HyperCard GS to read selected portions of an 8 Mb text
file on a CD ROM originally intended for MS-DOS machines.

I could see the files, copy some of the smaller ones to other volumes
(where they could be read) but could not read them from the CD ROM.  I
wrote the same handler for Mac HyperCard and it read fine, so I concluded
that the problem is in the High Sierra FST.

There are also bugs in the HFS FST.  Try using the installer with an HFS
volume as the target.

These FSTs are complicated and will take some time to iron out.  Perhaps
one of the good things that will arise out of the fact that there are no
more GS CPUs in the pipeline, is that the system software can be refined
w/o out fear of some new hardware wrinkle putting things back to square
one.  Yes, I'm a polyanna.
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[e-mail] (Frank Lowney), Director
The Regional Teacher Education Center at Georgia College
231 W. Hancock St., Milledgeville, GA  [phone]
Telnet to: GCEDUNET.PEACHNET.EDU to see a statewide K-12 info/com network.
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