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Re: Standard OS X Compression format

Am Mittwoch den, 28. November 2001, um 16:14, schrieb Marcel Weiher:

On Friday, November 23, 2001, at 02:32 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:

With this flag set, tar would automatically include all ._file counterparts on UFS, NFS and similar filesystems. Would probably not too difficult to implement and a real advantage when archiving single files on UFS.

I volunteer for this effort...done!

And the result is: gnutar!

No.

You have explicitely to add the ._file if you archive single files.


These 'special' names are special only to Carbon.

As the Finder uses them and the Finder in Mac OS is alomst as central as the kernel, they're essential.

Resource forks are likely to go away in a few years but Finder info support is already introduced into Cocoa - see NSOpenPanel.


It seems to me that this would be a perfectly fine separate utility.

It seems it could be incorporated into tar without noteworthy drawbacks, too.

... but that would be feature-bloat.

Obviously, a lot of people would appreciate it. It's traditional usage of tar not only to back up but to transfer files between systems, too.


enjoy,

Markus

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