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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:2007 comp.os.386bsd.development:1315 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1259 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!world!decwrl!concert!quad.wfunet.wfu.edu!lynchtk From: lynchtk@wfu.edu (thomas kevi lynch) 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 21:59:50 GMT Organization: Wake Forest University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <29pqsm$7t9@quad.wfunet.wfu.edu> References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ac.wfunet.wfu.edu terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >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. Are you sure that only 800k's would work? I have a dos program 'mac-in-dos' that reads, writes, formats, and converts on 1.44's. I've never yet had a problem with it. I'm not sure what method they employ, but I would think that it would be reproducable under linux.... Regards, Tom