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Date:      Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:50:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        TheLab <thelab@mit.nmarcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hayseed@nmarcom.com
Subject:   Re: Apple File System Support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971224144748.10003M-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971223122403.1086A-100000@mit.nmarcom.com>

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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, TheLab wrote:

> I was wondering if there are any plans to incorporate full Apple File
> System Support in FreeBSD...

I haven't heard of any efforts to bring HFS support into the main kernel,
no.  I don't even know if anyone is working on a driver for the thing
period.  Unless you're volunteering :-)

> I have a wonderful network running here with a UNIX File Server
> with NETATALK & Samba, supporting a large network of NT, Apple, and UNIX
> workstations and servers, but i have a slight frustration: 
> 
> Our graphic design workshop ships JAZZ, ZIP and Syquest drives back and
> forth to an external Print House, as well as to our clients. This is all
> fine and dandy except that i only have one drive of each, and they all
> hang off the FreeBSD box. If we get PC files, no problem... i wrote a
> script that allows our Mac-addicted Designers to mount the drive, and then
> access it though their Mac's 'Chooser' (gotta love netatalk!!). However,
> if we receive or have to send a drive in Apple's file system, i have to
> halt the server, yank the cables, bring the server up again, carry the
> drives over to my mac, do my business, then carry the drives back to the
> server, bring it down, hook it up again, bring the server up...

Macs can access DOS disks with the ``PC Compatibility'' control panel,
which is available from any Mac made in the last few years.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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