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Re: Cocoa File Copy on MacOS X
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Re: Cocoa File Copy on MacOS X


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa File Copy on MacOS X
  • From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 19:52:02 +0200

> On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 09:35 AM, Andrew Mortensen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>>> What's wrong with exec()'ing "/bin/cp" with appropriate args? :)
>>>
>>
>> Loss of metadata. Use /Developer/Tools/CpMac instead.

More importantly than metadata in this case, the resource fork...

> And break your app for a lot of people that don't have the Developer

A seriosuly bad idea. Is CpMac part of Darwin btw?

> Tools installed. Instead, the only way you should copy files is:
>
>> [[ NSFileManager defaultManager ] copyPath: src toPath: dest handler:
>> nil]

/ David Remahl
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