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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 08:06:49 +0000 (UTC)
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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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