[olug] Mac files from a 3.5 diskette

[Jon H. Larsen]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Francis Geiger wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:08:32 -0600
> From: Francis Geiger <hmcsret at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: [olug] Mac files from a 3.5 diskette
> 
> I have fedora core 1.  My friend gave me a floppy disk with word docs on it
> and the disk is formated in mac.  I took the disk to work and tried to access
> it on my windows machine it said the disk is formated in mac. Is there some
> way I can load these files in to my openoffice org?  Thanks Grant

you can mount a mac floppy in Linux.  'man mount' shows you can use the -t 
option to specify a file system.

Such as:
mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

You should be able to mount without the hfsutils package, but in case you 
are curious to have more options available, it should be available in a 
yum repo for you to install.

man hfsutils

NAME
       hfsutils - tools for reading and writing Macintosh HFS volumes

SYNOPSIS
       hattrib - change HFS file or directory attributes
       hcd - change working HFS directory
       hcopy - copy files from or to an HFS volume
       hdel - delete both forks of an HFS file
       hdir - display an HFS directory in long format
       hformat - create a new HFS filesystem and make it current
       hls - list files in an HFS directory
       hmkdir - create a new HFS directory
       hmount - introduce a new HFS volume and make it current
       hpwd - print the full path to the current HFS working directory
       hrename - rename or move an HFS file or directory
       hrmdir - remove an empty HFS directory
       humount - remove an HFS volume from the list of known volumes
       hvol - display or change the current HFS volume

       hfssh - Tcl interpreter with HFS extensions

       hfs - shell for manipulating HFS volumes
       xhfs - graphical interface for manipulating HFS volumes

DESCRIPTION
       hfsutils  is a collection of tools and programs for accessing 
Macintosh
       HFS-formatted volumes. See the accompanying man page for  each  
program
       above for more information.



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