[GTALUG] Anyone on the list know what I need to read ancient Apple disks?

[David Collier-Brown]

On 01/03/2015 04:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 04:50:49PM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>> I'm after pictures and email, and can probably do a trick with
>> strings to find JPEGs,  find and grep to find mailboxes and
>> addressbooks.
> Once you mount the HFS filesystem on linux you can actually get the resource fork too by doing:
>
> ls /hfsmnt/filename
> ls /hfsmnt/filename/rsrc
>
> So if you need the resource fork, it can actually be accessed if you
> know about the special /rsrc option (so essentially pretend the file is
> a directory with a file inside called rsrc).
>
> It won't show in ls that /rsrc exists since afer all the file is a file,
> not a directory.
>
> If a file has no resource fork, then you get an error if you try to
> access /rsrc.
>
Excellent, thanks!

--dave

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