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Comments: Authenticated sender is <david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk>
From: "David Cantrell" <david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:51:48 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
Reply-to: david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk
Message-ID: <1350416167-3484365@diablo.eimages.co.uk>

grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl wrote:

> > Possible, else you couldn't have IBM's read MAC's.
> You *can* read them, but you cannot *implement* it in your system software, 
> i.e. you cannot create drivers to *create* this file system. It's structure 
> is read/only ;-))) At least that's what I read in Computer World some time 
> ago.

Hmm ... so how come Transmac (a Windows 3.1 shareware thingy) enables 
me to read, write, and even FORMAT Mac disks of all types - floppy, 
CD, Syquest, even SCSI hard disks?

-- David Cantrell, http://www.eimages.co.uk/users/davidc/

The meek shall inherit the earth -
and the bold will go to the stars

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