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
       hformat - create a new HFS filesystem and make it current
       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


DESCRIPTION

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


NOTES

       HFS  pathnames  consist  of  colon-separated   components.
       Unlike  UNIX  pathnames,  an  HFS path which begins with a
       colon (e.g. :Foo:Bar) is a relative 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 vol-
       ume itself. Any occurrence  of  two  or  more  consecutive
       colons  in  a path causes resolution 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  speci-
              fied substring.


       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 path-
       names from the shell by using an appropriate quoting tech-
       nique. Typically it is best to surround HFS pathnames con-
       taining glob characters with single quotes (').

       Time  stamps on HFS volumes are interpreted as being rela-
       tive to the current time zone. This means  that  modifica-
       tion 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),  hfor-
       mat(1),   hmkdir(1),   hmount(1),   hpwd(1),   hrename(1),
       hrmdir(1), hvol(1)


AUTHOR

       Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>