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Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image

From billy@MIX.COM
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image
Date 2015-05-04 08:06 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <mi79ap$n0a$1@reader2.panix.com> (permalink)
References <agisaak.spamblock-03A6E5.13373903052015@shawnews> <slrnmkd33r.2ed.g.kreme@amelia.local>

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Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> writes:

> On the other hand, early versions of OS X *will* read MFS disk images if
> you happen to have the right tools from Apple which you probably cannot
> get anymore.
> 
> I recall getting some data from a 400K or 800K diskcopy file back around
> 10.3 or 10.4 after scouring the Apple Developer page for an MFS utility.

10.4 is required and it's named MFSLives.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/MFSLives -or-
http://sdg.mesonet.org/people/brad/XCode3/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleSnowLeopard.CoreReference.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/#samplecode/MFSLives/Listings/Read_Me_About_MFSLives_txt.html

This is source code, so you (or someone) has to build it.

Billy Y..
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Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 13:37 -0600
  Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-03 16:08 -0400
  Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 16:27 -0400
  Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-05-03 20:59 +0000
    Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image billy@MIX.COM - 2015-05-04 08:06 +0000
      Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 08:28 -0600
        Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 11:36 -0600
    Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 08:24 -0600
      Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-05-28 18:08 +0000
  Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-05-04 14:06 -0400

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