Re: Standard OS X Compression format
Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 03:04:35 -0800
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 06:31 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
Using <data-file>/rsrc is safe because that is a path that can simply
not happen on a non-forked file-system.
Hmm... I guess you're right, because having <data-file> and <data-
file>/rsrc would violate the requirement for names to be unique within a
directory. So, this naming is legal within an archive, but not in a
filesystem.
-jcr
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