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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:10:41 +0100

Am Samstag den, 17. November 2001, um 15:31, schrieb Marcel Weiher:

what if you have both a file named "foo" and one named "._foo" in your current directory?

You're lost, then. All OS X Apps are lost as well. "._foo" is simply a reserved name scheme (on Darwin / OS X).

The big advantage of using this special file is: You can un-tar your archive on a foreign OS as well, then mount this volume (e.g. NFS) on a OS X box and everything will work fine.

You can even rearrange your files on a foreign OS without any data loss, if you're careful. It's simply a lot more cross-platform.

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

Well, last time I tried, an archive packed with hfstar core dumped gnutar on IRIX when trying to unpackage the thing. Not to mention the big buch of error messages until it did.

Cheers,
Markus

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