brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY) (12/22/89)
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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Bitnet brianw@microsoft.UUCPbchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) (12/23/89)
In article <10047@microsoft.UUCP>, brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY) writes: > > 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 I'd like to see this utility myself and have thought about giving it a shot someday. As to Apple writing it, I would not bet on it. The (IMHO) reason for including the AFE program with the MAC software is to allow people to "move up" to a mac and take their old data with them. I doubt there's much interest in going the other way. Yes, I know that AFE allows xfer from mac to Apple // but I don't think that that is the primary reason for it's creation. Flame retardent additive, This is just my opinion. On the other hand, utilites like Works 2.0 *only* allow one way conversions. Also, please note the quote marks around the phrase move up. That's not the way I see it either. Bob Church att!oucsace!bchurch