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Thu, 8 May 2008 09:27:14 -0400
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Re: Zip(1) and resource forks
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I was about to send you info from this page.

http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/macosx.html

which suggests using ditto, and has info on how undo it with the  
command line and other useful things.

On May 8, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Hm.  Looks like ditto creates ZIP files with the resource forks
> included.  It uses Yet Another Naming Convention, which means that
> unzip(1) won't restore the resource forks automatically the way it
> does on Finder-created archives, but as long as just double-clicking
> the archive does the right thing, that should be good enough..
>

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