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: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:32:38 +0100
Am Donnerstag den, 22. November 2001, um 11:51, schrieb Gregory Block:
On 20/11/01 12:54 pm, "Marcel Weiher" <email@hidden> wrote:
Yes, I see the attraction of this, and I must admit I am attracted as
well. However, this is a translation of a native file-system
format to
a simulation of that file-system format. While a nice
feature, that is
the task of a different program.
So, what you're telling me is that unlike a zip archive, or an
ordinary tar,
an hfstar archive is really only valuable to a user of UFS and network
filesystems when he or she chooses to use an HFS disk to unarchive to.
Gregory,
why you are so upset? This is a decision made with valid
arguments and not by accident. I'm somewhat towards your opinion
but do respect Marcels view of the coin, since he actually made
the work, not me.
Instead of writing long mails to the list, you could start
improving one of the open sourced tar's, like gnutar.
Perhaps you want to begin adding an "Apple" parameter flag which
is set by default to "on" on all Resource fork aware OS's (OS X,
Darwin) and off on others.
With this flag set, tar would automatically include all ._file
counterparts on UFS, NFS and similar filesystems. Would probably
not too difficult to implement and a real advantage when
archiving single files on UFS.
Next you could add some code to pick up resource forks on HFS
into this ._file.
As a last step, unpacking ._files into resource forks could be done.
_How_ to do it, is almost obvious. But until today nobody had
enough encouragement to actually do it this way. This is how it
looks.
Markus
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