Re: [ANN] Mac OS X Metadata Petition
Re: [ANN] Mac OS X Metadata Petition
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Mac OS X Metadata Petition
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 21:10:43 +0000
On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 08:28 am, Tomas Zahradnicky, Jr.
wrote:
Its no hassle to deal with meta data at all. If you try to send a file
with it, it gets stripped by the internet if its not handled properly.
and yes it is a huge hassle.
That true, but that's the reason why they're BinHexed to preserve
Metadata.
No, they're binhexed to send them over systems that can only handle
ASCII and might mangle binary data. If all you want is to preserve
metadata, macbinary is the way to go. And when you're on UNIX systems,
you end up using tar or pax or something anyway, so there's no
difference.
-- Finlay