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Re: MacShrinkit
Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3b0401f3@news.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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).
>
I got a Mac program in ZIP format and unzipped and ran it. Ergo, ZIP works
for forked files with file types. Obviously, it works.
-Paul