11Nov2002
The Hierarchical File System, HFS, is a Mac novelty. The type/creator design works pretty well, in isolation; but these days (2002) the standard is file extentions, MIME types, and internal magic numbers.
I have all this stuff from UTMac... back in '98 or so, I managed to boot the mac, connect a Zip disk to it, and back up my files.
So today, I booted my old machine with scsi support and stuck a network card in it.
I should be able to export the files and copy them to my shiny new iMac, no?
Well, I never got netatalk authentication working.
But I discovered DebianPackage:mkisofs supports writing HFS CDROMs?. So it was just a matter of mounting the zip disk (with the netatalk mount option), making an HFS-happy ISO image, and burning it with DebianPackage:cdrecord as usual.
It's wild to see HyperCard? run under OS X!
references:
Appleshare on linux article in Low End Mac, 2001.08.28 by L Victor Marks. Ah yes... DebianPackage:netatalk
Linux Netatalk-HOWTO Version 2.1.1 March 16, 2002
hmm... The HFS for Linux Page
see also: ToMacOrNotToMac, StudentOfMacOsX
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