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Safari, resource forks, and downloaded archives
Authored by: jcteo on Aug 05, '04 11:28:42AM

I believe Safari unzips using whatever your default application for zip is. So unless you have BOMArchiveHelper set as your default app for .zip, you'll get those __MACOS files.

AFAIK, BOMArchiveHelper and the commandline ditto are the only apps capable of reconstructing resource forks from archives created using Panther Finder's contextual menu. BOMArchiveHelper lives in /System/Library/CoreServices, by the way.



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Safari, resource forks, and downloaded archives
Authored by: fracai on Aug 05, '04 12:35:18PM

Stuffit has had support for Finder archives for some time now. Only when Finder archives first came out did they not work correctly.

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Safari, resource forks, and downloaded archives
Authored by: Uncle Asad on Aug 05, '04 01:32:04PM

There's also Panther Unzip <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24128>, which provides another alternative, esp. for 10.2 users.

I never realized Stuffit Expander supported the Apple zips....



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