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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 11:51 , Steve Gehrman wrote:

I think the Macintosh community would be better off if we could phase out the .sit format and standardize on something that's open for Mac OS X.
What should the new format be? .gz and .tar.gz don't include resource forks.
Should we create a new format?

You should check out the xpak format, an initiative that is maintained by Scott Anguish over at Stepwise. I don't remember the links to the web site (if there ever was any), but you can sign up on the mailing list like this:

email@hidden

That project has been rather slow lately though...

Personally I think that the best way to go about this would be to "hack" (since it is private) into the DiskImages.framework and simply use the .dmg format for this.
It already supports all the meta data we need (both Mac and Unix) plus compression. The only thing that we need is an archiver / unarchiver utility, instead of DiscCopy that for some strange reason creates and mounts soft partitions out of these files. Wierd.

Regards,

j o a r

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