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Re: Standard OS X Compression format
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Re: Standard OS X Compression format


  • Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
  • From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:19:51 +0000

On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 02:52 pm, Ondra Cada wrote:

The reason is simple -- to make the archive easily and without confusion
useable worldwide. Should you try to unpack archive of your design on, say,
Linux, you'll get a pretty mess. OTOH, should you unpack there "mine", you'll
get only some trash in /tmp, where it does not matter, and the real files
will be unpacked without any nonsense around.

I'd prefer ._file, personally.
This still leaves the issue of Finder metadata, of course...

-- Finlay


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