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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

Am Dienstag den, 20. November 2001, um 13:54, schrieb Marcel Weiher:

._foo is treated specially only by (a) Carbon ...

... as Carbon is the only API (still) using Resource forks. For Cocoa and Finder Info I'm not too sure where to draw the border.

... when (b) accessing files on a non-forked file system.

which currently is every filesystem supported by Darwin / OS X, except HFS(+).

._foo is not special at all to Darwin!

Because Darwin doesn't make any use of resource forks. Does it?

On the Darwin 1.3.1 Install disk I couldn't find a single file with a resource fork size > 0.



Well, last time I tried, an archive packed with hfstar core dumped gnutar on IRIX when trying to unpackage the thing.

Hmm, I can't find the bug-report that you surely must have sent...can you resend?

You guess it: I were too lazy to figure out wether to bug gnutar, hfstar or IRIX. My conclusion was: hfstar is pretty useless for all non-HFS file systems, anyway. At least all the additions to hfstar over gnutar.

On HFS+, it works great.


Error messages that report errors: trying to unpack resource forks and finder info on a filesystem that does not support these features...

You might consider not to include empty resource forks and non-default finder info. The last time I had a look at hfstar was about half a year ago, so please excuse if you improved this already.


Please don't get me wrong after all this discussion: I appreciate the very existence of hfstar (like hfspax) very much since it jumps in where Apple left some sort of hole.


Markus

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