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Re: Stuffit Deluxe not applescriptable in 10.6.2
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Re: Stuffit Deluxe not applescriptable in 10.6.2


  • Subject: Re: Stuffit Deluxe not applescriptable in 10.6.2
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:38:41 +0000

John Mitchell wrote:

> I have been using Stuffit 10 to archive some data

Urgh, Stuffit. Hasn't that been consigned to its own circle of hell by now?


> Or a Unix app to substitute?

That would be the best solution. Avoids locking your data into a dying proprietary compression format, apart from anything else. Use ditto if you want to preserve any resource fork gubbins; gzip if you don't. Example:

set src_path to "/Users/foo/test/"
set dest_path to "/Users/foo/test.zip"
do shell script "ditto -ck " & quoted form of src_path & space & quoted form of dest_path

HTH

has
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