On 2015-01-03 03:55 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
what modern machines can read Mac file formats?
Last time I tried this (~2007), a Mac HD was recognized immediately on attaching it to a Linux box. PPC Macs used their own slightly weird partitioning system, but all the HFS filesystems mounted read-only correctly. hfsutils provides a crude shell environment if you ever need to delve into HFS images. Your biggest problem will be the file formats. MacOS 9 was still heavily into its data+resource fork model, so you can often be left with little clue what type of file is on the disk, or be stuck with crazy encoding issues. Mac Applications used to be a mess of very proprietary file formats (Apple Works, I am glaring at you), so let's hope any data you can get off the disk is in something vaguely sensible. And yes, formats like Word and Excel would be considered sensible ones here … Old Macs use just CR for newlines, FYI. cheers, Stewart