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