Re: Installer UI advices

[Markus Hitter]

Am 17.03.2005 um 14:04 schrieb M. Uli Kusterer:

> Apple has devised a scheme for storing resource forks in ZIP archives. 
> Basically, they have a folder named __MACOSX that replicates the 
> entire directory hierarchy, and contains the resource forks of those 
> files that have any.

The Finder stores Finder Info (file meta data like icon position) there 
as well and since about every file[1] on Mac OS X has Finder Info, 
there's about always a __MACOSX directory.

> That's the same scheme OS X uses on UFS volumes.

It isn't. In a .zip archive Resources and Finder Info go into a file 
prefixed by "._" which resides in the directory tree copy.

On UFS, the ._file is always in the same directory as the data file; 
there's no __MACOSX diectory. Apple did a silly design decision here, 
IMHO.


Markus



[1] Unless you have CLI only files - never touched by a Carbon or Cocoa 
based app.

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