Re: HFS Utils?

[derek@slab.cisco.com (Derek Taubert)]

In <32e2fc6b.167136@PersonalNews.Germany.EU.net> S�nke Behrens wrote:
> "Barry Rees" <Barry.Rees@prodigy.net> wrote:
> 
> >Bruce Maples <themaples@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
> ><32dd8097.104325927@netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
> >> If so, how hard would it be to write some?  
> >
> >Difficult at best. It's my understanding that Apple will not provide the
> >needed info.
> 
> Not correct, Apple does provide the needed info, even online (in Adobe
> Acrobat format). It's just that

Cool, I'll have to check that out.

> a) You need to know B* (or B+, take your pick :) trees fairly well,
>    you don't have to be afraid of pointers and structs and
> b) You'd need a fair amount of work and effort to actually create
>    a good repair utility
> 
> In other words, you need someone who's firm in
> C/Pascal/Modula-2/Assembler (take your pick) and knows his Basic Data
> Structures and Algorithms _plus_ has the time and staying power to
> pull this utility through.

Must I do everything?  :)

> Yours
> Soenke

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