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- From: jasonc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jason Campbell)
- Subject: reading Mac disks (was Re: Shareware wish list -or- does it exist?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.005449.12527@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305 USA
- References: <1992Aug18.165219.11745@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Aug18.173739.22281@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug18.220656.28551@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 00:54:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.220656.28551@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.173739.22281@leland.Stanford.EDU> stidolph@leland.Stanford.EDU (Wayne Stidolph) writes:
- >>dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >>>If there are any enterprising developers out there, it seems that this
- >>>could best be done by writing a Mac-format .IFS driver. This way, Mac
- >>>disks would be recognized as any other foreign file-system - OS/2 and
- >>>WPS using it seamlessly (like they do to HPFS) and DOS being able to
- >>>see 8.3 files.
- >>
- >>Might have to talk to Central Point in *some* detail - the Mac uses
- >>variable-speed drives, while the PC uses fixed-speed ...I suppose the
-
- >I would expect such a driver to require CP's option board. Since the
- >board and CP's programs can read Mac disks under DOS, I'd expect an
- >OS/2 driver to be quite possible.
-
- Only low-density (Okay, double-density) Mac disks use the variable rotational
- speed method. The Mac FDHDs use a basic format almost exactly like PC
- 1.44 MB disks. You can actually read text off one with Norton or a similar
- sector-viewing tool.
-
- There is already a DOS-based program "CLINK" that will read/write these
- high-density disks in a standard PC drive, but the interface is somewhat
- ill-thought-out.
-
- It might turn out to involve quite a few technical wrinkles to write a really
- good such beast: I don't know where one goes for information about the
- format, or what one does with the Mac "Resource fork" and the finder/desktop
- information.
-
- Jason.
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