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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/> ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug