Re: Package Removal: macutils

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Tom Callaway wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:47 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Tom Callaway wrote:
As part of Fedora's ongoing commitment to Free Software, we have been
undergoing a license audit of the packages contained in Fedora Core.
The macutils package was found to have no valid license or copyright,
and questionable lineage. Since nothing depends on macutils, this was a
trivial package to remove, and it has been taken out of Fedora Core
starting with FC-6.

Full details are in the bugzilla report here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202518

~spot
I've made use of it in the past as an end user. Is there any kind of replacement out there for dealing with Mac format files?
macutils has:

- bin/hex converters (perl has Convert::Binhex)
- apps to send files to and from OLD macs (I'm not aware of any other
apps)
There's hfsutils for reading/writing high density HFS floppies (and 
other HFS media).
netatalk was useful in the past to share files with pre-OSX Macs.

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