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Authored by: mervTormel on Jul 07, '03 08:10:51PM

true. one should use a rezFork friendly tool like ditto or rsync



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hfstar or hfspax
Authored by: extra88 on Jul 07, '03 11:17:22PM
I don't know how important resource forks actually are to Entourage data files but neither of those programs do what tar does, namely combine multiple files into a single file.

Instead, tar should be replaced with either hfstar or hfspax. I like hfspax but hfstar may be preferable because you wouldn't have to make any changes to the script, just symlink hfstar to tar (actually when you compile and install it, it is named "tar" and is put in /usr/local/bin/).

On a separate note, if you add the "-z" switch to tar (just change "-cf" to "-zcf" and the destination file to end with .tgz) you could cut the gzip line, tar will automatically zip the resulting tar file.



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