Re: SplitForks, AppleDouble and pax
Re: SplitForks, AppleDouble and pax
- Subject: Re: SplitForks, AppleDouble and pax
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:43:23 -0700
At 11:10 PM +0200 10/5/05, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
o Is there any plan to open source the SplitForks Dev Tools?
I suggest filing a bug with that request.
. The version in 10.2 is buggy. It does not split folder forks.
Yup.
. The version in 10.4 might be buggy (The
permissions looks wrong after splitting a
folder).
<rdar://problem/4127860> [SplitForks] Permissions issue with resulting files
While it might not be really complex to write
your own SplitFork tool, fixing the Apple one
could prove useful. And it might let people
distributing this tool independently.
(BTW: Is Apple really the company that created
the AppleDouble File Format? Because when you
search for AppleDouble on the Apple Developer
web site, you do not find any documentation on
the AppleDouble file format and not a single
link to a documentation. I know there's a RFC
about it but I've read better RFCs than this
one).
Heh. Yeah, AppleDouble was created by Apple, but
its poor documentation probably has to do with
how long ago it was created. The BBS era.
o Is there any plan to open source the pax tool
or provide a readable (read: easy to understand)
man page?
pax is part of the BSD distribution, and as such
I think is already open source.
. Trying to figure out how to extract a file
from a cpio-paxed archive is not easy when you
read the man page.
There should be plenty of random documentation on
the Internet at large of AppleDouble and the CPIO
format, since both are open standards.
Better (or any!) documentation of AppleDouble on
*.apple.com would be another excellent topic for
a bug report and/or a DTS request.
-pmb
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