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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Reading FreeBSD file system from DOS
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:59:01 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Maciej Wiatr <maw@techfak.uni-kiel.de>

Maciej Wiatr wrote:
> I think, there is a possibility to reab fBSD file system by using
> Notron Commander or Norton Utilities.

Das ist leider gar nicht moeglich. :-)

The BSD UFS filesystem is complex, and reading it from anything but BSD
is a highly non-trivial task (at least for anything but the simplest
types of operations - the BSD boot loader code does manage to read it,
but its requirements are not very demanding).
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project