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HCOPY(1)               DragonFly General Commands Manual              HCOPY(1)


NAME

       hcopy - copy files from or to an HFS volume


SYNOPSIS

       hcopy [-m|-b|-t|-r|-a] source-path [...] target-path


DESCRIPTION

       hcopy transfers files from an HFS volume to UNIX or vice versa. The
       named source files are copied to the named destination target, which
       must be a directory if multiple files are to be copied.

       Copies are performed using a translation mode, which must be one of:

       -m     MacBinary II: A popular format for binary file transfer. Both
              forks of the Macintosh file are preserved. This is the
              recommended mode for transferring arbitrary Macintosh files.

       -b     BinHex: An alternative format for ASCII file transfer. Both
              forks of the Macintosh file are preserved.

       -t     Text: Performs end-of-line translation. Only the data fork of
              the Macintosh file is copied.

       -r     Raw Data: Performs no translation. Only the data fork of the
              Macintosh file is copied.

       -a     Automatic: A mode will be chosen automatically for each file
              based on a set of predefined heuristics.

       If no mode is specified, -a is assumed.

       If a UNIX source pathname is specified as a single dash (-), hcopy will
       copy from standard input to the HFS destination. Likewise, a single
       dash used as a UNIX destination pathname will cause hcopy to copy the
       HFS source to standard output.


NOTES

       Copied files may have their filenames altered during translation. For
       example, an appropriate file extension may be added or removed, and
       certain other characters may also be transliterated.

       The destination target must not be ambiguous; that is, it must be
       obvious whether the target is on the UNIX filesystem or on an HFS
       volume. As a rule, HFS targets must contain at least one colon (:),
       usually as the beginning of a relative pathname or by itself to
       represent the current working directory. To make a UNIX target
       unambiguous, either use an absolute pathname or precede a relative
       pathname with a dot and slash (./).


SEE ALSO

       hfsutils(1), hls(1), hattrib(1)


AUTHOR

       Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

HFSUTILS                          13-Jan-1997                         HCOPY(1)

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