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Article #20297Re: HFS/MFS
From: Robert Dorsett
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1987 16:00
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1987 16:00
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In article <241@cantuar.UUCP> james@cantuar.UUCP (J. Collier) writes:
>Earle R. Horton (earleh@dartvax.UUCP) writes:
> ...
>>Why you would need an 800k MFS floppy completely escapes me.
>
> RamStart users find 800k MFS floppies quite useful.
> I usually set RamStart as the startup application, and have it copy the
>System, Finder and whatever else I require. The easiest way to do this is to
>place RamStart in the System folder. (You could use a startup document, but..)
> By using an MFS floppy and keeping the various system initialisation files
>(Appleshare, MacsBug etc.) outside the system folder, you can avoid wasting ~50k
>of RamDisk (or rather, avoid the effort of dragging the icons into the rubbish
>bin).
Ramstart 1.4 or later, I believe, support specific file specification. One
is expected to specify the files/folders that are to be copied on the HFS disk.
The feature is fully documented within the program.
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Robert Dorsett {allegra,seismo}!sally!ut-ngp!walt!mentat
University of Texas at Austin {allegra, seismo}!sally!ut-ngp!auscso!mentat
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!auscso!mentat From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HFS/MFS Message-ID: <485@auscso.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 12:00:54 EDT Article-I.D.: auscso.485 Posted: Wed Oct 14 12:00:54 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 01:11:59 EDT References: <1005@oakhill.UUCP> <7304@dartvax.UUCP> <241@cantuar.UUCP> Reply-To: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) Distribution: na Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX Lines: 38 Keywords: 800k MFS RamStart Standard File Summary: Don't use old software...:-)