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A caution on using zip for backups
Now I'm home, I tried zipping files with resource forks using right-click, Create Archive of...
It definitely stores resource fork info in there. There's a top-level __MACOSX dir in the zip containing it. This is recombined when extracting. Using 10.4.8. The same thing happens when emailing a folder in Mail.app. All the bits remain intact. Maybe I misread the original poster, or perhaps s/he's not using 10.4 ? ---
Zip does preserve forks.
You are correct, and the original poster is wrong. Apple wrote a special implementation of .zip format into BOMArchiveHelper.app that preserves forks but is compatible with PC files.
article is about command-line zip
The article is rather confusingly written in that it starts off by talking about the archive facility available from Finder (which does preserve resource forks - as the article says) when the main point of the article is about the command-line version of zip not preserving resource forks.
article is about command-line zip
... and following that train of thought, these are the tools that Apple says support resource forks in 10.4 (plain old zip isn't among them):
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