[lug] [OT] archive formats

[Paul E Condon]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:07:36PM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 04:47:19PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 
> > OS/X does have zip/gzip/bzip and tar as part of Darwin.
> 
> Apparently the newest versions (maybe earlier too, I just know what someone
> tested for me today using a new Mac laptop) support tar out of the box as
> well.  I'm still a bit shocked that Windows doesn't even recognize what tar
> is, but I shouldn't be.  
> 

I don't know how you intend to use the cross-platform compatibility feature.
Don't your Windows boxes connect to a Samba server? Can't you get people
who want directory structure save, to put them on shared space on your *nix
server running smb? Requiring that a solution be well designed and also 
be capable of running on Windows is a contradiction IMHO.

Even with OS/X, there are weirdnesses about the way that they do #nix that
may bite you. But at least they have tar. I just don't know how they 
support Mac forked files and whether their version of tar does wierd things
to support forked files, etc. 

I know how netatalk supports forks, and plain *nix tar is all that's needed
to save the contents of a netatalk file server. 

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon at mesanetworks.net