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From: Chris Ricker <gt1355b@prism.gatech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 00:42:36 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Sam Trenholme wrote:

> Whooooo! Where, may I ask, would these little treasures be?
> 
> I am looking at my Amiga. I have a lot of old data on that Amiga from the 
> 1980s.  I would like to mount it on my Linux beast.

Not having an Amiga, I can't promise that this works (I haven't tried it 
myself).  Try

ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/system/Filesystems/jb-affs-1.0.tar.gz

which is supposed to support Amiga's file system.

> I have a buddy with a Mac.  It would be nice if we could share files and 
> keep LFNs, and presumably, a decent way of handling resource forks.

You've got several choices here.  If you want to do it over the network, 
the new kernels support AppleTalk, and there are even packages to let 
your linux box be a file server over AppleTalk.  Look at

http://thehamptons.com/atalk.html

for more details.

If you have Mac floppies or a Mac drive that you actually want to use on 
your computer, there are both

ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/utils/disk-management/hfs0_36.tgz

and

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/hfs/

for a kernel module.  I believe there is also something with read-write 
support out there, but I can't seem to locate it right now.

later,
chris

Chris Ricker : gt1355b@prism.gatech.edu : The Georgia Institute o' Technology