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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Reading Mac HFS on Apple ][
Summary: Why not?
Message-ID: <10047@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 03:10:43 GMT
Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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I recently executed a public domain program which reads Mac 400K disks.
It worked perfectly on a disk I had lying around from the days of the
original Mac.

What surprises me is that if block reads of Mac disks are possible with my
Apple ][ Plus (even though the Mac stores 524 bytes per sector instead of the
normal 512 bytes per Apple ][ block), then why isn't there a utility to read
800K double-sided HFS disks?  It seems like this would merely be an extension
of a Basic program so that it would take into account the structure of a Mac
HFS volume.  How complicated can HFS be?

Doesn't anyone have the Mac Tech Notes documenting HFS and a strong desire to
access Mac disks on the Apple?  Perhaps I should expect this software from
Apple Co. themselves?

Brian Willoughby
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