compress with resource forks
compress with resource forks
- Subject: compress with resource forks
- From: John Cochrane <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:47:05 +1000
My Applescript skills have been improving steadily but my unix skills
are lagging.
The recent thread "Really delete a file via AppleScript" has shown me
how to use do shell script to copy a file to a different volume and
preserve the resource forks.
I would like to create an option to compress a backup of a file while
preserving the resource forks. Is it possible to use the shell to do
this. I struggle with the man pages and have tried compress, gnutar -Z
and gzip and but cannot find an option that works. I was hoping to
use a shell script to avoid having to get a proprietary solution like
Stuffit Deluxe.
I suspect that it is impossible. If so could a knowledgeable lister
please put me out of my misery.
With apologies for being slightly OT
John Cochrane
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