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- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:41:04 -0500 (EST)
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- I was just thinking today, and a matter of curiosity came up. The
- problem I have with HFV files (beyond the little bug that for now limits
- them to 128 MB) is that they are simply a large, combersome file on my
- hard drive, which makes backing up my hard drives all that much more
- interesting. It is a wonderful innovation, don't get me wrong, but in the
- future, especially post-7.5 drop-in, I can think of an additional means
- which might make some people a little more happy.
-
- Right now, Executor can format floppies only, I believe. I've kind
- of run into the problem lately of wishing it could format SyQuest
- cartridges, and this made me wonder if Executor could be setup to format
- hard drive partitions sometime in the future. I would imagine this wouldn't
- be a problem after MacOS is able to be dropped in, assuming that like the
- 1.44 MB disks, the physicality of the disks is the same (which may be a
- grossly erroneous assumption on my part), to use its hard disk utility to
- format hard drives. Of course, if this were possible, it would be absolutelu
- vital for ARDI to rig a flag that would tell the OS *_NOT_* to format the
- boot partition!
-
- Still, I think a hard drive partition could make Executor a more
- integrated part of the PC itself, which can only better ARDI's market. That
- way, people who don't like the idea of a multi hundred meg file on their
- primary drive can fool themselves into thinking they have a "separate" disk
- for Mac, without having to go out and buy a pre-mac formatted hard disk.
- (Then again, the differences between SCSI and IDE may be the reason behind this
- .)
-
- Another benefit (which admittedly would'nt matter in the post-MacOS
- dropping stage) would be the possibility of multi-tasking. Right now, the
- HFV file must be in the same directory as EXECUTOR.EXE, and since you
- can't launch Executor twice from the same directory (since it won't let you
- open the exsystem.hfv file twice) your HFV file is only accessible in one
- instance, whereas a hard disk partition would be available from anywhere.
-
- Anyone have any thoughts?
-
- --Gene
-
-