[Pythonmac-SIG] Adding resource fork support to tarfile.py

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On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:45 PM, David M. Cooke wrote:

>
> You've got to explicitly handle the resource fork yourself. The tar  
> format (AFAIK) doesn't support any notion of extra metadata or  
> forks of a file. Tiger's tar fakes it by saving the resource fork  
> as a separate file   with '._' added to the front (e.g., for  
> 'hello.font', it stores the data fork as 'hello.font', and the  
> resource fork as '._hello.font').
>
> I've attached two scripts I wrote a while ago that handle the  
> resource forks in this way.
>

David,

Thank you very much for the scripts.  I am just about to dig into  
them today.  I was afraid that this would be the case.  I was hoping  
the support for resources forks would come for free under Tiger.   
Again, I really appreciate the help.

Reid


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