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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:2175 comp.os.386bsd.development:1339 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1317 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry 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: 23 Oct 1993 06:45:58 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2aajv6$7v1@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> <29pqsm$7t9@quad.wfunet.wfu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <29pqsm$7t9@quad.wfunet.wfu.edu> lynchtk@wfu.edu (thomas kevi lynch) writes: [ ... ] >>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". [ ... ] >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.... This should have been 1.44M; the 800K's are the ones that *can't* be read. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.