On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:43:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can use dd with (the data fork of) a MacOS DiskCopy image, as long > as it was created as a read/write image (not sure if read-only works; > read-only compressed definitely doesn't). I've checked. You can also > use plain binary images you get onto a Mac HD from Disk Copy as long > as they are precisely long enough to fill a 1.44 floppy (checked this > too by writing debian images from Disk Copy; had to pad some with zeros > to get the right length but then they worked).
i thought it would, macos keeps the checksum in the resource fork. > Also, if you're handy with a hex editor, it's possible to configure > miBoot from Linux or *BSD; Apple documents the resource file format > at > <URL:http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/MoreToolbox/MoreToolbox-99.html>. ugh > Admittedly this is somewhat deceptive as regards the base for one > of the offsets into the file; I'm therefore including some perl > source which illustrates (sort of) the process of parsing a > resource file. interesting > Oh, and: you can read a .sit file on Linux (and presumably *BSD with > an emulator or a recompile or a few tweaks to the source). See > <ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/linux/sunsite/utils/compress/macutils.tar.gz> > if it ever comes back up or the debian source tarball for the > 'macutils' package otherwise. That is, unless it's in > StuffIt(tm&backatyou) 5 format which AFAIK is too new for the latest > version of this and leaves you up the proverbial creek ... somehow > I can't remember if such is the case for miBoot (*checks*) oops, > damn, looks like it is. Well, there's always that thing on NT, it's > by the same company that makes the Real Thing so it should be up to > date with the latest secret decoder ring or whatnot. actually the unsit utility is not included with the debian verison of macutils it would seem, and i beleive i know why, i tried this utility once and found it only works on 1.5.1 archives, this format was apparently documented somewhat. stuffit 4 is proprietary and quite UNdocumented, as is 5.0. unsit will not touch either. I had also found that unsit pretty much only output corrupted files, its source has not been modified since 1988, that is a very long time... The best solution to .sit archives is to not use them, macbinary + gzip provides a perfectly open and compatible solution. -- Ethan Benson
