Re: compress with resource forks
Re: compress with resource forks
- Subject: Re: compress with resource forks
- From: Joshua See <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:15:46 -0500
As a practical solution to this problem, I like the idea of using
DiscCopy, but Zipit! <
http://www.maczipit.com/ also offers scriptable
non-proprietary archiving and compression with preservation of resource
forks via macbinary.
As for those who argue its impossible to work with resources in shell,
see CpMac, DeRez, ditto, MvMac, rez, RezWack, Setfile, SplitForks, or
try the following:
tar -cf"testfile.tar" testfile testfile/rsrc; gzip testfile.tar
While I admit that the command lines to convert the file back to its
original state and preserve other metadata are a little tricker, and
outside of this lists scope, I find the dismissive attitude of others
regarding resources in shell annoying. Apple software engineers
probably went to quite a bit of trouble to make this work.
--
Sincerely,
Joshua See
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