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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:52:30 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        "Jason T. Nelson" <jason@purcell.jlc.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can 2.0.1 mount NEXTSTEP disks? 
Message-ID:  <95Oct13.105231pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 95 11:53:05 PDT." <9510121853.AA09535@purcell.jlc.net> 

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In message <9510121853.AA09535@purcell.jlc.net> you write:
>I was hoping I could mount the NEXTSTEP disk because it's a 4.3 filesystem,
>but I've been unsuccessful so far. Can it be done? If not, why not?

One reason why not is the NeXTStep filesystem is a big-endian filesystem, even 
under NeXTStep 486.  (One of the reasons that NeXTStep won't run on 386's - 
byte-swapping is too slow).

  Bill




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