Re: Standard OS X Compression format
Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:10:41 +0100
Am Samstag den, 17. November 2001, um 15:31, schrieb Marcel Weiher:
what if you have both a file named "foo" and one named "._foo"
in your current directory?
You're lost, then. All OS X Apps are lost as well. "._foo" is
simply a reserved name scheme (on Darwin / OS X).
The big advantage of using this special file is: You can un-tar
your archive on a foreign OS as well, then mount this volume
(e.g. NFS) on a OS X box and everything will work fine.
You can even rearrange your files on a foreign OS without any
data loss, if you're careful. It's simply a lot more
cross-platform.
Using <data-file>/rsrc is safe because that is a path that can
simply not happen on a non-forked file-system.
Well, last time I tried, an archive packed with hfstar core
dumped gnutar on IRIX when trying to unpackage the thing. Not to
mention the big buch of error messages until it did.
Cheers,
Markus
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