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Re: [PLUG] Archive formats (was Re: StuffIt for Linux and Solaris)
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:07:54AM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 6:31 AM -0400 7/11/01, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> >Binhex you can get around. Pkzip, for example, understands binhex
>
> No it doesn't. WinZip does, I believe, but PKZip doesn't.
> And of course, both of those are on the Windows platform - not Linux.
> But yes, BinHex is no big deal - there are a number of tools that can
> handle it.
Mea culpa on the license, but see
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/pkzipforlinux/>
Here's a GPL option:
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/uudeview/>
> FYI: One nice thing that StuffIt does on non-MacOS platforms
> when it decodes BinHex (and MacBinary, etc.) is to offer the option
> of "reencoding" into either AppleSingle or AppleDouble - which is
> GREAT for servers that are then file-system mounted on a Mac. Even
> cooler, is that the Windows version of StuffIt can deal with NTFS
> "forks" and can save/restore Mac shares on an NT server.
Nice feature, although I bet this could be done with two steps. But I
won't quibble.
> >and has a way nicer license than Alladin's closed source solution above.
>
> Huh? PKZip is a closed source implementation. Perhaps you
> are thinking of the InfoZip (<http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/>)
> implementation of the Zip file format which was created by Phil Katz
> (PK).
Egg. Oops. See above.
May RMS have mercy on my soul... ;-)
> > But .sit files are a pain, and Alladin's done a good job of
> >convincing Mac users that sit is the only way to go.
> >
> I have news for you - technically it is! The StuffIt archive
> format is the only one that can completely save & restore all aspects
> of a Macintosh file and/or directory structure. For that matter,
> it's also the only format that can completely save & restore all
> aspects of a Windows or Unix file/directory. (NOTE: gnutar does
> pretty good for Unix, but doesn't handle Windows or Mac)
It was, I'm not sure it is. For example, BeOS ended up using a free
zip implementation to handle there attribute stuff. I rather imagine
if zip could handle attributes it can handle resource forks and Finder
attributes. But timing is all: StuffIt was there first for MacOS, and
they weren't there at all for BeOS.
--
Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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