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NAME

       hfsutils - tools for reading and writing Macintosh HFS volumes

SYNOPSIS

       hattrib - change HFS file or directory attributes
       hcd - change working HFS directory
       hcopy - copy files from or to an HFS volume
       hdel - delete both forks of an HFS file
       hdir - display an HFS directory in long format
       hformat - create a new HFS filesystem and make it current
       hls - list files in an HFS directory
       hmkdir - create a new HFS directory
       hmount - introduce a new HFS volume and make it current
       hpwd - print the full path to the current HFS working directory
       hrename - rename or move an HFS file or directory
       hrmdir - remove an empty HFS directory
       humount - remove an HFS volume from the list of known volumes
       hvol - display or change the current HFS volume

       hfssh - Tcl interpreter with HFS extensions

       hfs - shell for manipulating HFS volumes
       xhfs - graphical interface for manipulating HFS volumes

DESCRIPTION

       hfsutils  is  a collection of tools and programs for accessing Macintosh HFS-formatted volumes. See the accompanying man page for each pro-
       gram above for more information.

NOTES

       These utilities can manipulate HFS volumes on nearly any medium. A UNIX path is initially specified to hmount or hformat  which	gives  the
       location of the volume. This path can be a block device -- corresponding to, for example, a floppy disk, CD-ROM, SCSI disk, or other device
       -- or it can be a regular file containing an image of any of the above.

       The medium specified by the UNIX path may or may not contain an Apple partition map. If partitioned, it is possible for more than  one  HFS
       volume  to  be  present on the medium. In this case, a partition number must also be given which selects the desired partition. This number
       refers to the nth ordinal HFS partition on the volume. (Other, non-HFS partitions are ignored.)	Partition number 0 refers  to  the  entire
       medium, disregarding the partition map, if any.

       HFS pathnames consist of colon-separated components. Unlike UNIX pathnames, an HFS path which begins with a colon (e.g. :Foo:Bar) is a rel-
       ative path, and one which does not (e.g. Foo:Bar) is an absolute path. As sole exception to this rule, a path not containing any colons	is
       assumed to be relative.

       Absolute pathnames always begin with the name of the volume itself. Any occurrence of two or more consecutive colons in a path causes reso-
       lution of the path to ascend into parent directories.

       Most of the command-line programs support HFS filename globbing. The following forms of globbing are supported:

       *      matches zero or more characters.

       ?      matches exactly one character.

       [...]  matches any single character enclosed within the brackets. A character range may be specified  by  using	a  hypen  (-).	Note  that
	      matches are not case sensitive.

       {...,...}
	      expands into the Cartesian product of each specified substring.

             causes the following character to be matched literally.

       Note  that  since  globbing  is	performed  by each HFS command rather than by the UNIX shell (which knows nothing about HFS volumes), care
       should always be taken to protect pathnames from the shell by using an appropriate quoting technique. Typically it is best to surround  HFS
       pathnames containing glob characters with single quotes (').

       Time  stamps  on  HFS volumes are interpreted as being relative to the current time zone. This means that modification dates on HFS volumes
       written in another time zone may appear to be off by some number of hours.

       Hardware limitations prevent some systems from reading or writing native Macintosh 800K floppy disks; only high-density 1440K disks can	be
       used on these systems.

       The obsolete MFS volume format is not supported by this software.

SEE ALSO

       hattrib(1),  hcd(1), hcopy(1), hdel(1), hdir(1), hformat(1), hls(1), hmkdir(1), hmount(1), hpwd(1), hrename(1), hrmdir(1), hvol(1), hfs(1),
       xhfs(1)

AUTHOR

       Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

HFSUTILS
							    08-Nov-1997 						       HFSUTILS(1)