Re: Arghhhh with PC--->Apple over Null Modem Cable

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

Marvin Miller wrote:
> 
> OK, I guess I'll have to explain the scenario..
> 
> I have roughly 400 megs of Apple programs compressed into a single
> self-extracting zip file. This file is comprised of around 4,000 individual
> programs that I found lying around the 'net. As a result, they are stuck on
> my PC.
> 
> The reason I need a comm program that will work with HFS is obviously
> because of the file size. No other file system will do. I do not have a Mac
> lying around so there's no help there. It's going to have to go over a null
> modem cable from the PC ---> Apple
> 
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 

This is a long shot:

If you:
1) have Linux on your PC
2) have a PC SCSI card
3) The HFS drive has a real apple partition table

Then you can:
1) place the HFS drive on the PC.  
2) Boot linux.
3) Load the hfs drive "insmod hfs"
4) mount the hfs partition "mount -t hfs /dev/sdaXXX /mnt -o
fork=double"
5) Decompress your .ZIP file onto /mnt (if you have Linux, you probably
know how to do this).
6) unmount everything and place the HD back into the GS.


I have successfully transfer large amounts of data from my Mac LC-II
running Mac OS 7.5.3 to my Linux box using this method.  I see no reason
why it should fail for a IIgs.

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