On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

> Um, with hfs layer, HFS partition would look to the user like any
> other fs NetBSD has.  It will do all the above for you.  That's what
> a filesystem is supposed to do.

Yeah, I guess so. :-)

My point was that installing from tar files on a MacOS partition,
which as one of the stated goals of building an hfs layer, is amenable
to a much simpler solution.