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Re: size of HFS partitions?

Subject: Re: size of HFS partitions?
From: dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Date: 1995/05/06
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
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In article <5MAY199505194827@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spector@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
> 	I'm surprised _three years_ after introducing the HFS FST, no one 
> has even *attempted* to write utilities to touch HFS volumes on the IIgs.

Probably due to the staggering lack of decent documentation on the
file system.  I tried following the description in Inside Mac Volume
4, but couldn't make sense of the B-tree structure (it didn't seem to
agree with the manual).  Does anyone know of a well-written and
correct description of the HFS file system structure?
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

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