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author | Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> | 2013-01-27 01:02:02 -0600 |
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committer | Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> | 2013-01-27 01:02:02 -0600 |
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Rename a number of libraries and executables to avoid conflicts with KDE4
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diff --git a/tdeioslave/mac/README b/tdeioslave/mac/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bb907dd9c --- /dev/null +++ b/tdeioslave/mac/README @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +From the hfsplus man page: + + "HFS+, also known as the Macintosh Extended Format, was + introduced by Apple Computer in 1998 with the release of + MacOS 8.1. It contains many improvements over the old HFS + file system, most notably the ability to allocate up to + 2^64 blocks, resulting in much more efficient storage of + many small files on large disks." + +This kio slave lets you read an HFS+ partition from konqueror +or any other KDE file dialogue. It uses hfsplus tools so you will +need these installed for it to work. + +TO INSTALL + +Read the INSTALL file. + + +NOTES + +Just enter mac:/ into Konqueror and you should see the contents of +your MacOS partition. Actually you'll probably get an error message +saying you havn't specified the right partition. Enter something +like mac:/?dev=/dev/hda2 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 mac-fdisk. The partition +will be used the next time so you don't have to specify it each time. + +Hfsplus tools let you see the file and copy data from the HFS+ +partition but not to copy data to it or change the filenames or such like. + +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're +copying files across to you native drive is raw data which means it +just copies the data. 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 funny 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: +mac:/myfile?mode=b or mac:/myfile?mode=t See man hpcopy for more. + +Note that you need permissions to read your HFS+ partition. How you +get this depends on your distribution, do a ls -l /dev/hdaX 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). + +File types are done with matching the HFS+ type and application label +and then by extentions. See the source for the exact matching that +happens and feel free to suggest improvements. + +For some reason some directories in MacOS end in a funny tall f +character. This seems to confuse hfstools. + +You can't easiily use the command line tools while you are browsing +using kio-mac in Konqueror. Konqueror continuously refreshes it's +view which mean hpmount is being called every few seconds. Click on +Konqueror's home button before using the tools yourself on the command +line. + +Hidden files are now shown all the time. Apparantly Konqueror only +considers files with a dot at the front of the name to be hidden which +is a bit system dependant. + +Please e-mail me with any comments, problems and success stories: +Jonathan Riddell, jr@jriddell.org |