Re: MacShrinkit

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <3b0401f3@news.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> 
wrote:

> ralmin <xbiber@bigpond.net.au> wrote
> >
> > There are some problems with ZIP because it doesn't support all the ProDOS
> > file information like file types or forks. These things would need to be
> > added in some way.
> >
> 
> There are several Mac versions of ZIP, so I don't think that can be true.
> Mac files have forks and file types as well.

They're pretty much only out there for dealing with ZIP files from
other sources, or the rare occasion of actually having to ZIP some
files for people running windows, at which point, you usually don't
care if the file/fork information gets stripped (when it's data files,
if there's a fork, it usually doesn't matter too much and often only
contains something like a preview).

But, ZIP would be acceptable for most MacOS X things I think...some
of the MacOS X programs come GZipped...

Greg B.
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