Re: ditto in ObjC or C
Re: ditto in ObjC or C
- Subject: Re: ditto in ObjC or C
- From: Nathan Day <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 18:16:05 +1000
If you look in 'File Manager Reference' you will see that there are funtion for reading and writting forks as a series of bytes. You could write your own copy function.
In Tuesday, May 03, 2005, at 06:08PM, Graham J Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
>On 3 May 2005, at 08:49, Jens Miltner wrote:
>
>> Am 03.05.2005 um 09:05 schrieb Rémy Schumm:
>>
>>> I'm copying a File with java - of course, the resource fork gets lost
>>> (e.g. the thumbnail-image on a Photoshop-File).
>>> The "ditto" command-line-tool does exactly what I want: ditto --rsrc
>>> copies with resource.
>>>
>>> Question: is there some ObjC or C function somewhere that I could use
>>> for this, e.g. access via JNI?
>>
>> You could use e.g. NSTask to run ditto as an external tool.
>> Alternatively, take a look at
>> <http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FSCopyObject/
>> FSCopyObject.html>. This is some C code that implements HFS+ savvy
>> object copying. Not sure how easy this is to integrate with java,
>> though...
>>
>
>In an off-list discussion with Rémy I suggested looking at the source
>code for cp from Darwin 8.0 as it understands resource forks -
>mentioned on-list as well as it's relevant :-)
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