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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:30:15 -0500

On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 06:37 PM, j o a r wrote:

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...

Yeah.. last status was that we had a 1.0 spec, but only a really basic code implementation.

It'd be great if we could get more help, since there were only two/three active contributors.

http://www.stepwise.com/Software/xpak

The problem with .dmg is that you must extract the entire thing to get anything..

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