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: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:28:12 +0100
Am Mittwoch den, 28. November 2001, um 16:14, schrieb Marcel Weiher:
On Friday, November 23, 2001, at 02:32 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
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.
I volunteer for this effort...done!
And the result is: gnutar!
No.
You have explicitely to add the ._file if you archive single files.
These 'special' names are special only to Carbon.
As the Finder uses them and the Finder in Mac OS is alomst as
central as the kernel, they're essential.
Resource forks are likely to go away in a few years but Finder
info support is already introduced into Cocoa - see NSOpenPanel.
It seems to me that this would be a perfectly fine separate utility.
It seems it could be incorporated into tar without noteworthy
drawbacks, too.
... but that would be feature-bloat.
Obviously, a lot of people would appreciate it. It's traditional
usage of tar not only to back up but to transfer files between
systems, too.
enjoy,
Markus
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