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Re: Metadata support




On Jun 24, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Tomas Zahradnicky wrote:

Hello,

I've noticed that tar is able to store files' metadata and in order to preserve it, it adds ._FILENAME file that appears to store FileInfo and file's resource fork if there's one. Anyone knows if this process is somewhere documented including the information it stores beyond the raw resource fork?

My app uses libtar and when I extract everything, I need to recombine ._files back into their owners. I have written something that appears to work but would like to be sure I restored everything I had to.

Doesn't the utility in

/Developer/Tools/FixupResourceForks

do this already?  man FixupResourceForks

I think you could use this utility in a shell wrapper to do the trick.

Oh -- it's also in
/System/Library/CoreServices/FixupResourceForks

so you don't need to rely upon developer tools to be installed.

- boyd
Boyd Waters
Socorro, New Mexico

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