Subject: Re: Further observations...
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/07/1998 14:55:03
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Justin R. Smith wrote:
> > 1. How does one access ordinary Macintosh files?  I noticed a command
> > mount_dos. Is there a corresponding operation for Macintosh files?
> 
> Not yet.  Everyone who has done work on Unix-based HFS support seems to
> have put it under the GPL, as a result, we don't have anything like that
> in the kernel.  However, there is an excellent set of utilities you can
> download and compile for this purpose, called the hfsutils.  I don't seem
> to have a copy of the URL at the moment, but I guess I should find it and
> add it to the FAQ....

There's an old one on puma, tho there are probably many newer versions.

Any chance of HFS support in an lkm?  I believe somebody said that would
get around the GPL issues.


David

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