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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Has anyone written a Mac FS or Mac FS Access utilities for Linux or 386BSD?
Date: 16 Oct 1993 06:28:17 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> pdinda+@cs.cmu.edu (Peter A Dinda) writes:
>
>The subject sort of is the question.  By Mac FS for Linux/386BSD, I mean
>a Vnode style foreign file system that can be mounted with the mount
>command and is available via standard Unix file access calls.  
>
>I am already aware of such DOS utilities as Macette and MacSEE.

Would you want to read all MAC disks, or only the ones compatible with IBM
hardware?

If the latter, then you are limited to the 800k disks, and the answer is
"not yet, but the FS specs should be available from apple.com for their FS".

Note that you will either have to extend the VNOPS tabe or forget about
resource forks.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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