On 2006-03-20, at 18:29:18, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:

>> Another option might be to use:

>> /System/Library/CoreServices/BOMArchiveHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
>> BOMArchiveHelper ~/Desktop/some.app

> This worked well for an AppleScript non-bundle application as  
> well.  The resource fork in Mac OS X is really tricky...!

Hi Nobumi,

There are some tools available to help with resource forks. Depending  
on your needs, Rez, DeRez, and RezMerger can be very helpful. These  
are found in /Developer/Tools (after you have installed Developer  
Tools).


To distribute files with resource forks, I generally make a disk  
(file extension ".dmg"). You can use a shell script to make one very  
easily:

	hdiutil create -srcdir /path/to/folder /path/to/folder.dmg


This gives you a web ready disk in a size only slightly larger than  
zip size.

You can delete those .DS_Store files first with the 'find' command.

And you can still zip the .dmg file to save some more space.


Cheers,

Philip Aker
philip_aker->mac.dot.com