Re: Installer UI advices

[Sheldon Gill]

Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
> 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. 

Actually, .zip files can preserve resource forks. The implementation 
just needs to know about them.


Regards,
Sheldon