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Being a recent switcher , I'm still on my training wheels, so I have a farily basic question. In WinXP, there is a built-in compress/decompress function or one could install Winzip. What is the equivalent in OS X? Does Panther have some built-in compress/decompress function? If not, is Stuffit the main one everyone uses? and if so, is it correct that only Expander is freeware and to do compression, one will need to buy Stuffit Standard Edition?
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MacOS X has the "Disk Image" function. basically, it's an ISO that can be mounted like another drive, encrypted, etc. it can make for a convieniant way to compress and archive files. .dmg files, available in "Disc Copy" or in the Disk Utility in 10.3
the old MacOS way was Stuffit. it's necessary for files like applications and some documents (.pict, .snd, etc) due to the resource forks. MacOS X no longer writes anything with resource forks, and developers have been encouraged to ditch them as PCs strip them in transit. Aladdin now has .sitx, which can have large filenames and has other detail advantages. "dropstuff", the archiving program, is a crippled demo in a way, in that it does not allow the use of advanced features. Stuffit Expander, is free.
another way is .tar.gz, which is generally the unix way, .tar.bz having better compression. these stand for tar (or "TapeArchiveR", make many files into one file, originally for backup tapes), g-zip and b-zip, all open source. they also strip resource forks unfortunatly. there is something called tarmac or somesort, which will preserve the resource fork, making .tar.gz (or ".tgz") the ideal compression format to use when transferring files to Windows/PC users (WinZip opens them).
(Last edited by yukon; Oct 31, 2003 at 09:22 PM.
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Re: tar stripping stuff.
Does hfstar have this problem?
If not, then you may consider using it instead of the original tar, though I don't know how well non MacOSX machines handle hfstar archives. So, a little testing may be in order. [ULR=http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html]Here[/URL] is the website for hfstar.
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Yes, Panther has built in .zip archiving.
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Originally posted by OptimusG4:
Yes, Panther has built in .zip archiving.
Right click (control-click acts as a right click) and select "Make Archive" It will zip the item for you.
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