Re: Hardware ID program posted

["Scott M. Blackman" <blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>]

vax2.concordia.ca wrote:
> 
> In article <31F4DF7C.13989F28@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>, "Scott M. Blackman" <blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu> writes...
> >The following is the README from a program I just posted to comp.binaries.apple2:
> >
> >README for ID, ID.OBJ, and source files
> >by Scott Blackman <blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>
> 
> Didn't you write HFSLink? I'm wondering what the last version update
> was and where I might find it.
> 
> Mitch

Yep; you've got a good memory.

     For those just reading this, I wrote HFSLink, which copies files
from Macintosh HFS-format disks to ProDOS.  It's different from the HFS
FST, because (obviously) it also runs on //e and //c's.  It also allows
you to copy the data fork and/or the resource fork into their own files.
I've seen people use this feature to extract sound resources from a Mac
resource fork (which was copied into a ProDOS DATA fork) with a program
such as Resource Spy.  There's another program out there, called a2fx,
by Chan Wilson, which does pretty much the same stuff, although I did
find one HFS disk a few years ago which broke his program and not mine;
that's not a significant difference if it works for you.  HFSLink has
been extensively tested only with 800K 3.5" disks, but I did get it
to work with my HFS-formatted hard drive (before I reformatted it as
ProDOS).

     An HFSLink FAQ: It does not convert picture formats (such as TIFF)
to Apple II-readable formats.  It does not copy sounds out of resource
forks.  And most of all, it does _not_ allow you to run Macintosh
programs.  There are good programs out there to allow you to do all of
these (except #3!).  See the HFSLink README file or ask somebody what
they are.

     The latest version was 1.0, but I wasn't able to find it out on the
archive sites.  I checked apple2.caltech.edu and ground.isca.uiowa.edu.
So I'll go home, dig out the disk, and upload it to those sites.  The
next-to-latest version was b5, which I was able to find out there.  I
believe the major changes were somewhat functional but mainly
user-interface type stuff, with such things like auto-filetype setting
based on extension, and setting up default behaviors like
always-extract-resource-fork, just-extract-data-fork, etc.

     Until I get version 1.0 re-uploaded, you can get b5 at:

ftp://apple2.caltech.edu/Zocalo/pub/apple2/8bit/hfsreaders/hfslink05.shk

Now that I think about it, I'll probably change the README file to
reflect my new email address.  I bet it's changed since then (~5 years
ago).

Enjoy.
Scott Blackman
blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

cc: Mitch