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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

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Rather than a new "standard", going with something like tar.gz would be much preferable. True, it doesn't understand resource forks, but preferred mode for OS X is resource in data fork of a seperate file. Perhaps modifying (and providing patches back) to the existing utilities to gracefully handle forks.

Something like this:
Bundle files into the tar the same as if OS X was sticking files onto a UFS or foreign NFS drive, by putting resources in an external file. When decoding, automatically reassemble if the filesystem supports forks, or leave in the accepted format on others.

Standards are a good thing taken in moderation. I'd rather see an existing, living standard extended (with feeds back to the standard), than YACS (Yet Another Custom Standard).
</asbestos_underwear>

Andrew

On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 05:51 PM, Steve Gehrman wrote:

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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