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Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
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Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test


  • Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
  • From: David Wright <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 04:47:46 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Aaron Kelley wrote:

> >On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 06:42 , Stiphane Sudre wrote:
> >
> >>Since DiskCopy creates 5,10,whatever MB Disk Image, you need to
> >>compress them.
> >>
> >>=> .sit
> >>
> >>Since .sit is not a format necessarily recognized by every
> >>OS/client/whatever (Proprietary format), encoding in .hqx helps
> >>preventing download nightmare story.
> >>
> >>=> .hqx
> >
> >Two bad steps instead of one reasonable one: you need to compress a
> >file => .gz.
>
> Wouldn't tar.gz be more proper from the unix standpoint than gut gz?

From a generic unix standpoint, it would probably be better not to use
disk images at all, and just stick entirely with .tar.gz's. I know I've
been annoyed when trying to download cocoa code at work (linux/freebsd)
and been stuck with nothing to mount it.

I realise though that they are alien to the majority of mac users.

Also, am I right to think that tar and gzip - unlike stuffit - will
ignore resource forks?

dave
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