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-From the hfsplus man page:
-
- "HFS+, also known as the Macintosh Extended Format, was
- introduced by Apple Computer in 1998 with the release of
- MacOS 8.1. It contains many improvements over the old HFS
- file system, most notably the ability to allocate up to
- 2^64 blocks, resulting in much more efficient storage of
- many small files on large disks."
-
-This kio slave lets you read an HFS+ partition from konqueror
-or any other KDE file dialogue. It uses hfsplus tools so you will
-need these installed for it to work.
-
-TO INSTALL
-
-Read the INSTALL file.
-
-
-NOTES
-
-Just enter mac:/ into Konqueror and you should see the contents of
-your MacOS partition. Actually you'll probably get an error message
-saying you havn't specified the right partition. Enter something
-like mac:/?dev=/dev/hda2 to specify the partition (if you don't know
-which partition MacOS is on you can probably guess by changing hda2 to
-hda3 and so on or use the print command from mac-fdisk. The partition
-will be used the next time so you don't have to specify it each time.
-
-Hfsplus tools let you see the file and copy data from the HFS+
-partition but not to copy data to it or change the filenames or such like.
-
-HFS+ actually keeps two files for every one you see (called forks), a
-resource fork and a data fork. The default copy mode when you're
-copying files across to you native drive is raw data which means it
-just copies the data. Text files are copied in text mode (same as raw
-format but changes the line endings to be Unix friendly and gets rid
-of some funny extra characters - strongly advised for text files)
-unless you specify otherwise. You can also copy the files across in
-Mac Binary II format or specify text or raw format with another query:
-mac:/myfile?mode=b or mac:/myfile?mode=t See man hpcopy for more.
-
-Note that you need permissions to read your HFS+ partition. How you
-get this depends on your distribution, do a ls -l /dev/hdaX on it to
-see. Under Debian you have to be in the disk group (just add your
-username to the end of the entry in /etc/group).
-
-File types are done with matching the HFS+ type and application label
-and then by extentions. See the source for the exact matching that
-happens and feel free to suggest improvements.
-
-For some reason some directories in MacOS end in a funny tall f
-character. This seems to confuse hfstools.
-
-You can't easiily use the command line tools while you are browsing
-using kio-mac in Konqueror. Konqueror continuously refreshes it's
-view which mean hpmount is being called every few seconds. Click on
-Konqueror's home button before using the tools yourself on the command
-line.
-
-Hidden files are now shown all the time. Apparantly Konqueror only
-considers files with a dot at the front of the name to be hidden which
-is a bit system dependant.
-
-Please e-mail me with any comments, problems and success stories:
-Jonathan Riddell, jr@jriddell.org