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Re: ProDOS driver for linux...?
- Subject: Re: ProDOS driver for linux...?
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- Date: 3 Sep 2005 06:49:25 -0700
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Andy McFadden wrote:
> Warren 'Llama' Ernst <warren@warren_nospam_ernst.com> wrote:
> > What would you mount with it?
>
> You could use the "loopback" option to mount disk images.
>
> If it included Mac partitioning support, you could use an Apple II hard drive.
>
> It's an interesting idea, but without a way to convert the data to a
> usable format, it's less useful that could be hoped.
I'm not very experienced with Linux device drivers and file system;
however, isn't there a low-level device driver that could scoop raw
blocks off the device into a file (using dd?) on a Linux-supported file
system, which would be readable by user-land utilities?
It's not 100% necessary to create a fully-functional file system to
mount the ProDOS directory tree in the Linux directory tree.
I think Andy's point is, for instance, even if you have an Applesoft
program file in your Linux directory listing, what can you do with it?