Re: using dmg files (fwd)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 24 Sep 2004, at 09:26, Alex Perez wrote:

> Rogelio Serrano wrote:
>
> > I wonder why apple uses that format. Can we do something
> > similar like using iso or cramfs format instead? So we can loop mount 
> > the
> > image then drag and drop to the Apps directory or wherever?
> we could but there's no point

Yes, I can't see what the advantage of using a disk image would be...
You could mount it and then copy the contents out of it, but I don't see
how that would be any better than having a .tar.gz file which you could
unarchive directly to where you want it.