Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:09:20 -0700 (MST) | From | seth <> | Subject | Re: MacOS file system ? |
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Actaully, the HPFS (High Performance File System) is for OS/2, so HFS is correct. HFS is designed for use on MAC formatted disks (harddrives, zipdisk, floppy, etc.) HFS works great and gives you all the long filenames, etc. Looks just like a mount VFAT, or EXT2 partition.
SSE
> As for the kernel supporting the MacOS filesys (I think it's HPFS or HFS, > isn't it? Anybody?) , it would be rather difficult, since you have the > two-forked files to deal with in the transition--in this case, any support > would probably turn out to be similar to PC Exchange--the two forks split into > their own files. Unless you have programs that could read Mac files combined > in a certain format (there are several standards, actually, for representing > the two forks on a one-fork system such as FAT), it's probably much easier > just to have the Mac wizards save the files in an IBM format you can read and > let it rest. >
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