XHFS(1)

✨ XHFS(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for xhfs, and let me tell you, she's giving retro Mac energy and I'm obsessed 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

xhfs — a graphical interface for manipulating HFS volumes 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

xhfs [left-path [right-path]]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So like, xhfs is a graphical front-end for browsing and copying files on HFS-formatted volumes. She's the vibe, she's the moment, she's your little window into a whole HFS world 🫶

The display is split into two parts, left and right, and each one can independently view a directory on either an HFS volume or the host (UNIX) filesystem. Two panes, two moods, no cap ✨

Double-clicking the name of a directory in either view opens that directory. And a pop-up menu at the top of each directory view lets you navigate to any directory between the current one and the beginning of the hierarchy. it's giving "breadcrumbs but make it a dropdown" 😌

Text files can be viewed by double-clicking them. Any file or set of files can be copied to the directory shown in the other view — just select them and click the "Copy" button 👑

Copying is performed according to the selected copy mode, and here are all of them, no skips, no cuts:

• MacBinary II — The file(s) will be copied using the MacBinary II format. This is the recommended mode for transferring arbitrary Macintosh files. ⭐ like, the default bestie choice, fr fr
• BinHex — The file(s) will be copied using the BinHex format. This mode should be used to encode Macintosh files into strict ASCII format. 💌 strict ASCII, she's on a diet
• Text — In this mode, only the data fork(s) of the selected file(s) are copied. Furthermore, translation is performed on the data's end-of-line characters to conform to the standard for text files on the destination. 🍓 so like, the line endings get a glow-up on the way over
• Raw Data — In this mode, only the data fork(s) of the selected file(s) are copied. However, no translation is performed whatsoever on the data. 💀 literally zero translation, raw and unfiltered, main character energy
• Automatic — A copy mode will be selected automatically according to a set of heuristics. 🔮 the app just ~knows~, iykyk

heads up bestie: those Text and Raw Data modes only grab the data fork(s) — the resource fork stays home. that's not me being dramatic, that's just the facts 🌈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• hfsutils(1)
• hfs(1)

go read those too, they're the supporting cast and they ate 💜

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> — king behavior honestly 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 this little slice of the HFSUTILS manual is dated 02-Apr-1996, and yeah, she's XHFS(1) through and through. 1996 called, she's iconic, periodt 💅✨