Re: CD backup

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4on1od$gna@asia.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>I just bought a Yamaha CDR-102 burner for the PC, and I'd like to archive 
>some GS stuff on disk.  Since I don't yet have the ability to burn HFS 
>discs on the PC, ISO-9660 should work fine, right?  Also, is there 
>anything special I have to do to the .SHK files before dumping them over 
>to the PC?  I mean, with the resource forks?  I'd like to make the 
>archives a 1-step process, so I don't have to first run 1 program, then 
>run GSHK to decompress the results of the first program.  Can GSHK 
>archive files into the data fork only?  Thanks in advance!

   GSHK creates flat (i.e. data only) files by default-- you'd have to
play around with the file later to add any sort of resource fork. Even
if you added a resource fork to a .shk file, GSHK wouldn't bother
looking at it when unpacking. This is true even if the compressed files
had resource forks, came from all sorts of partition types, etc.

   This makes it a pretty nice backup system.

Nathan Mates

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