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diff --git a/tde-i18n-sl/docs/tdebase/tdeioslave/mac.docbook b/tde-i18n-sl/docs/tdebase/tdeioslave/mac.docbook new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..910dbf36d86 --- /dev/null +++ b/tde-i18n-sl/docs/tdebase/tdeioslave/mac.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +<article lang="&language;" id="mac"> + <title>mac</title> + + <para>The mac ioslave lets you read an HFS+ partition from + &konqueror; or any other &kde; file dialog. It uses + <ulink + url="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hfsplus+utils"> + hfsplus tools</ulink>, + so you will need these installed for it to work.</para> + + <para>Enter <command>mac:/</command> + into &konqueror; and you should see the contents of your &MacOS; + partition. If you have not used kio-mac before, you will + probably get an error message saying you have not specified the + right partition. Enter something like + <command>mac:/?dev=/dev/hda2</command> + to specify the partition (if you don't know which partition &MacOS; + is on, you can probably guess by changing hda2 to hda3 and so on + or use the print command from + <command>mac-fdisk</command>). This partition will be used the next + time, so you do not have to specify it each time.</para> + + <para><command>Hfsplus tools</command> let you see the file and copy + data from the HFS+ partition, but not to copy data to it or change + the filenames.</para> + + <para>HFS+ actually keeps two files for every one you see (called + forks), a resource fork and a data fork. The default copy mode + when you are copying files across to your native drive is raw data, + which means it only copies the data fork. Text files are copied + in text mode (same as raw format but changes the line endings to + be &UNIX; friendly and gets rid of some extra characters - strongly + advised for text files), unless you specify otherwise. You can + also copy the files across in Mac Binary II format or specify + text or raw format with another query: + <command>mac:/myfile?mode=b</command> or + <command>mac:/myfile?mode=t</command>. See <command>man + hpcopy</command> for more.</para> + + <para>Note that you need permissions to read your HFS+ partition. + How you get this depends on your distribution, do a + <command>ls -l /dev/hdaX</command> on it to see. Under Debian you + have to be in the 'disk' group (just add your username to the end of + the entry in /etc/group).</para> + + <para>For some reason some directories in &MacOS; end in a funny + tall 'f' character. This seems to confuse hfstools.</para> + + <para>Author: Jonathan Riddell <email>jr@jriddell.org</email></para> +</article> + |