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beware of resource forks
What about resource forks? Apple's zip will keep them, but this new one?
beware of resource forks
No, Apple has modified Tiger's command line programs--like zip, tar, cp, and rsync--to handle resource forks and other filesystem metadata. Any version you compile yourself or install with Fink or Darwinports won't have this support. You'd have to modify the source yourself to use Tiger's new *xattr family of functions.
beware of resource forks
The zip command on 10.4 doesn't preserve resources forks and extended attributes. "Create Archive of ..." in Finder does because BOMArchiveHelper uses the ditto command to create zip archives. That's my understanding anyway, which I can't double-check right now.
beware of resource forks
It shouldn't matter much as long as one uses command line version only for unarchiving the passwd protected files, which by default don't come from a resource-fork enabled filesystem. But your remark does have a valid point of course.
beware of resource forks
Are you referring to kaih's comment? Your reply is threaded with wallybear's comment.
beware of resource forks
Apple's default command-line zip doesn't seem to retain resource forks as of 10.4.6. I ran into this just now, as two files sent to me, zipped via the command line zip utility, were without resource forks. Testing the command line version seemThe man page has a -df switch description, which seems to imply that resource forks would be kept unless -df is on. That line is misleading: even if you try to use -df, it appears have no effect at all on the compression behavior. |
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