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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

Hi folks,

there seems to be some confusion about the availability of hfstar, which continues to be available from www.metaobject.com. I have to admit that some of the confusion is my own fault because I had moved it to a different download directory without posting to the world. So it is now back at

http://www.metaobject.com/downloads/macos-x/

(source code distribution). To be posted soon is a new version that implements Markus Hitter's suggestions for not archiving empty/default resource forks/finder-info.

One known issue with the current version is that it doesn't preserve the bundle bit for directories. This means that, for example, the Acrobat Reader 5.0 application bundle will revert to a plain directory after unarchiving. This can easily be fixed/prevented by appending the .app extension.

I wanted to check how hfspax handles this, since documentation for the setattrlist() calls seems to not even be forthcoming but simply MIA, but alas it seems that hfspax does not come with source code, and also segfaults when unpacking an archive of the Acrobat Reader 5.0 bundle it created.

Marcel

On Sunday, November 18, 2001, at 10:15 PM, Howard Oakley wrote:

I am pleased to report the release of version 1 final candidate 4 of hfspax,
still the only Mac OS X native archive tool that has full support for
resource forks, Finder info, OS X permissions, and the whole richness of OS
X files. It remains freeware (of course).

--
Marcel Weiher Metaobject Software Technologies
email@hidden www.metaobject.com
Metaprogramming for the Graphic Arts. HOM, IDEAs, MetaAd etc.

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