On 3/22/2007 8:33 AM, Morgan Aldridge wrote:
> Mac OS X's zip, tar, cp, etc., tools (atleast as of Tiger) do support
> resource forks, but other platforms don't know what to do with them.
> They usually get uncompressed as an OSX directory filled with ._
> files (which normally would reside alongside the regular files, if
> the forks are split) on other platforms.
>
> Also StuffIt! Expander is actually still available and free. Check
> out http://www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html and look for the free
> Expander (or go to the download page directly: http://www.stuffit.com/
> mac/expander/download.html). Also, previous versions of all the
> StuffIt! versions are available one Aladdin/Allume/SmithMicro's ftp
> site ftp://ftp.allume.com/ (note they haven't gotten around to
> changing that URL yet).
>
Actually I suggest you try downloading just the expander and see what it
says. I have tried that several times (for the windows version anyway)
and while it says "expander" it is really the same as the the basic
version. They rolled the expander as part of the basic version which
makes it much larger AND annoys you to death when you try to just expand
files after the 30 days. So while it is still available (sort of) and
free it is not what it use to be.
-Dan
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