Apologies for the late summary, but I've been busy with other things.

Thanks to those that replied, particularly Matthias Kurz who pointed me

to the following site.

        http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/

> HFS is the ``Hierarchical File System,'' the native volume format used

> on modern Macintosh computers. hfsutils is the name of a comprehensive

> software package being developed to permit manipulation of HFS volumes > from UNIX systems.

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