Re: resizine HFS

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:54:46AM +0100, Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono wrote:
> Once upon a time, there was a program called LIDO7, that run under MacOS 7,
> and was able to resize non-destructively HFS partitions.
> 
> I searched more info about it, but its company - Surf City Software -
> closed down and disappeared in 1994 or 1995. Looks like that *maybe* it
> re-released under GPL LIDO7 before closing, but i wasn't able to find it.
> Well, if it is true, it could be used by somebody (not me and not Andrew, i
> suppose ¹) to add resize HFS support to parted...

I found lido7, but I can only find a sea.bin program.  I guess it
might be a self-extracting archive of the source, but I doubt it.

Do you know who worked for Surf City Software?  Tried mailing them?

> ¹ Andrew is too busy i suppose - and even if he had time, i think parted
> would need some more important features than HFS... correct? :)

I think HFS support would be really cool... but HFS+ support is more
important.

Cheers,
Andrew