Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
- Subject: Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:59:36 -0600
Title: Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
Entity Joe Block uttered this profundity:
>>> Tiger does not include Stuffit Expander. What oh what shall I do
>>> with this
>>> file?
>> Stuffit Expander is still free, as always. If you didn't keep your
>> copy from
>> Panther (so you didn't do an Archive & Install or Upgrade?) you
>> could go
>> download it from versiontracker. Apple never used to provide Stuffit
>> Expander in the "old days" either.
> Count me in with Gnarlodious. I'd much rather see files as either
> compressed dmg files or panther/tiger style zips. I don't see any
> point in promoting a proprietary compression standard when there are
> two good free ones. And .dmg.gz seems to run smaller than .sit to boot.
> Have you seen the maze on Allume's webstie recently? It's harder to
> find an Expander download without the Stuffit Standard nonsense than
> it is to find the free version of RealPlayer :-(
Internet buzz has it that Allume demanded too much from Apple to include Expander as a bundled app, so Steve blew them out of the water. They aren't long for this world.
I'm switching to *.dmg, despite being a processor hog it's completely commandline driven. I like being able to script it any way I like. Now if I could just figure out how to make resizable diskimages.
-- Gnarlie
-- Make a diskimage from the selected folder and enable it for browser mounting
tell application "Finder"
set aFolder to the selection as alias
if class of item aFolder is folder then
set volName to the name of aFolder
set sourceFolder to the POSIX path of (container of aFolder as string)
set dmgPath to sourceFolder & volName & ".dmg"
set cmd to "hdiutil create -srcfolder " & the quoted form of (sourceFolder & volName) & " -fs HFS+ -volname " & the quoted form of volName & " -ov -format UDZO -imagekey zlib-level=1 " & the quoted form of (sourceFolder & volName)
tell application "Terminal"
if (count of windows) is 0 then do script ""
delay 0.1
do script cmd in front window
do script "hdiutil internet-enable -yes " & (quoted form of dmgPath) in front window
end tell
else
display dialog "Not a folder"
end if
end tell
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