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  <!ENTITY debian   "<productname>Debian GNU/Linux</productname>">
  <!ENTITY hfsplus  "<productname>hfsplus</productname>">
  <!ENTITY hfsutils "<productname>hfsutils</productname>">
]>

<refentry>
  <refentryinfo>
    <address>
      <email>jensen@debian.org</email>
    </address>
    <author>
      <firstname>Jens</firstname>
      <surname>Schmalzing</surname>
    </author>
    <date>Mar 13 2001</date>
  </refentryinfo>
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>hfsplus</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>hfsplus</refname>
    <refpurpose>a set of tools to access HFS+ file systems</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>
      HFS+, also known as the Macintosh Extended Format, was
      introduced by Apple Computer in 1998 with the release of MacOS
      8.1.  It contains many improvements over the old HFS file
      system, most notably the ability to allocate up to 2&caret;64
      blocks, resulting in much more efficient storage of many small
      files on large disks.
    </para>

    <para>
      The &hfsplus; collection allows one to access volumes formatted with
      the HFS+ file system from &debian; and related operating
      systems.  The collection contains tools to mount and unmount
      HFS+ volumes, to change and list directories, and to copy
      files to and from HFS+ volumes.
    </para>

    <para>
      Note that unlike its cousin, the &hfsutils; collection used for
      accessing HFS file systems, &hfsplus; does not use the Macintosh
      pathname syntax with &quot;:&quot; as delimiter.  Instead, it
      mimics the unix notation, delimiting the names of volumes,
      directories and files in a path with &quot;/&quot;, and also
      understands &quot;.&quot; and &quot;..&quot; to some extent.
      </para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See also</title>

    <para>
      hpmount(1), hpls(1), hpcd(1), hppwd(1), hpcopy(1), hprm(1), hpmkdir(1), hpumount(1), hpfsck(1).
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Author</title>

    <para>
      This manual page was written by Jens Schmalzing
      <email>&lt;jensen@debian.org&gt;</email> for &debian; using the
      manual page by Klaus Halfmann
      <email>&lt;halfmann@libra.de&gt;</email> that comes with the
      source code and documentation from the <productname>Tech Info
      Library</productname>.
    </para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>

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