AncientFS Opens Archaic Filesystems To Mac OS X

December 17, 2008 by Stephen 1 Comment

Just a quick note: Google’s Amit Singh recently introduced a new addition to the MacFUSE user-space filesystem software for OS X: AncientFS allows the Mac to read a host of archaic file systems and data container formats, from DECtape to Dump to the various flavors of the standard UNIX file system.

This ought to be useful for those of us who have standardized our desktops on OS X yet still maintain a variety of old data storage systems and archives.

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The 2018 iPad Pro is a Beast!

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My Core i7 Macintosh SE

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Storage Changes in VMware vSphere 5.1

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Review: 2013 Ford Flex

September 23, 2012

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My Visit to Bletchley Park

August 3, 2012

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Storage Changes in VMware vSphere 5

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