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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 02:56 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:

(forgot to cc the list first time around)

On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 03:12 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:

One could of course, simply flatten forked files for tar the same way they get flattened for storage on an FFS filesystem. So, in your tar file, if you tarred up "foo", you'd get "foo" and "._foo".

That has exactly the problem I outlined: what if you have both a file named "foo" and one named "._foo" in your current directory?

I think this is a perfect example of:

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H L Mencken

;-)

Using <data-file>/rsrc is safe because that is a path that can simply not happen on a non-forked file-system.



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Marcel Weiher Metaobject Software Technologies
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Metaprogramming for the Graphic Arts. HOM, IDEAs, MetaAd etc.

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