Re: Standard OS X Compression format
Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:30:15 -0500
On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 06:37 PM, j o a r wrote:
On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 11:51 , Steve Gehrman wrote:
I think the Macintosh community would be better off if we could phase
out the .sit format and standardize on something that's open for Mac
OS X.
What should the new format be? .gz and .tar.gz don't include resource
forks.
Should we create a new format?
You should check out the xpak format, an initiative that is maintained
by Scott Anguish over at Stepwise. I don't remember the links to the
web site (if there ever was any), but you can sign up on the mailing
list like this:
email@hidden
That project has been rather slow lately though...
Yeah.. last status was that we had a 1.0 spec, but only a really
basic code implementation.
It'd be great if we could get more help, since there were only
two/three active contributors.
http://www.stepwise.com/Software/xpak
The problem with .dmg is that you must extract the entire thing to
get anything..