Re: Installer UI advices

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 17 mars 05, à 08:27, Jeremy Tregunna a écrit :

> On 17-Mar-05, at 3:02 AM, Robert Slover wrote:
>
> > [...] -- so it is possible to compress a directory on, say, VMS, ftp 
> > it to some other VMS system, uncompress it and have a usable 
> > directory hierarchy
>
> Except GNUstep doesn't run on VMS. And if for example, you're also 
> talking about resource forks, .zip files don't preserve resource 
> forks, so you're back at square one. There is a tar like program 
> (think it's called xar or something similar) which does preserve 
> resource forks. Just a thought.

The main point though is that you can embed whatever header you deem 
interesting in the zip, and more importantly, you have direct access to 
the catalog.

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Nicolas Roard
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