Re: Standard OS X Compression format
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