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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:16431 comp.sources.wanted:18301 comp.unix.bsd:13204 Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys5.r3 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!news.crd.ge.com!sarah!thor.albany.edu!ms1352 From: mike@psarc.com (Michael D. Sofka) Subject: Looking for program to read Mac HFS from UNIX. Message-ID: <1993Dec28.203810.24814@sarah.albany.edu> Originator: ms1352@thor.albany.edu Keywords: Mac HFS, Magnito Optical. Sender: news@sarah.albany.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Publication Services, Inc. Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 20:38:10 GMT Lines: 36 I am looking for a program that can read the Macintosh Hierarchical File System (HFS) from UNIX. We are putting a Magnito Optical Drive on a System V/R3 machine. The MO disks will be written by Macintoshes, and we would like to read them from UNIX. Nothing fancy, just a program to read the raw SCSI device and interpret the data stream as a Mac file system. It would need to find a requested file, and copy it from the MO disk to the UNIX file system. Eg., maccopy /dev/rsd1 bigbitmap.eps . We are doing this so that the MO disk can be sneeker-netted from the Macintosh network to the UNIX network. The disk will contain scanned bitmapps. A single bitmap could easily be several megs, and a book may have a gigs worth of bitmaps so the sneeker-net offers large potential bandwidth (especially if we run :-). The UNIX system with the MO drive is a Purup PS-Link (Harlequin) RIP (Raster Image Processor). Its running Tadpole technologies UNIX (kernel version 1.06) which is SVR3 (or pretty darn close). I do not read these news groups regularly so please reply via email. If I find something, and there is interest, I will post a summary. Thank You, Mike P.S. Please forward to any potentially useful groups or individuals. -- Michael Sofka Publication Services, Inc. mike@pubserv.com SUNY-Albany ms1352@csc.albany.edu