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Standard OS X Compression format

Subject: Standard OS X Compression format
From: Steve Gehrman <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:51:02 -0800

Cocoa Developers,

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?

I think this is an important topic to finalize while OS X is still relatively new. Something as basic as file compression/decompression should not be in controlled by a single third party developer.

I can provide the open source application for compress and decompress once we decide.

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Steve Gehrman
CocoaTech, Inc.
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http://www.cocoatech.com

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