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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: 23 Oct 1993 06:45:58 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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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
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