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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

Marcel,

>>>>>> Marcel Weiher (MW) wrote at Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:12:44 +0100:
MW> This is essentially what the hfstar patch to gnutar does: for each
MW> <plain-file> archived, also archive '<plain-file>/rsrc'. Nothing
MW> special needs to be done when untarring, it just works.

I don't think so. As I have recommended ages ago, I think it would be much
better to move those resource forks into a separate tree, rooted (using some
*QUITE* distinctive name) in /tmp. When unarchiving to HFS, the "macgnutar"
would catch this special name and restore resource forks.

The reason is simple -- to make the archive easily and without confusion
useable worldwide. Should you try to unpack archive of your design on, say,
Linux, you'll get a pretty mess. OTOH, should you unpack there "mine", you'll
get only some trash in /tmp, where it does not matter, and the real files
will be unpacked without any nonsense around.
---
Ondra Cada
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