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From: peter@hari.VIEWlogic.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: what is the # of the catalog file?
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.151701.1649@viewlogic.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 15:17:01 GMT
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In article <32895@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
|> If you are doing anything that requires knowledge of low level
|> details of HFS, be aware that the description in IM is not
|> complete.  There are fields in the nodes of the trees, for
|> example (if I remember right), that are not documented in IM.
|> 
|> There's an unpublished tech note that gives all the gory details.
|> (At least, it was unpublised when I got a copy by asking DTS what
|> these fields were.  I've noticed it on one of the developer CD
|> ROMs.  I think it was Discy Business).
|> 

Well, it seems it`s about time Apple published a fuller description of HFS.
In my case, I had an (effectively) infinitly nested folder which I couldn't
delete. I couldn't figure out how to clean it up via my raw disk editor(s)
so the only way I could fix things was to reinitialize the disk (This was the
startup volume/partition on my hard disk! Thank god I had a small partition
that I used for the startup volume only and had all my other work on other
partitions on the HD). If I'd had a clue on how to munge the catalog file I
would have been all set.

I suppose, if someone has a copy of that unpublished tech note, I would
love a copy of my own! Can anybody help me?

        Peter C

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