Hey Andrew, Does your PackUpAndGo program handle resource forks ala hfstar? As you probably know, Panther's tar does not support them, and one too many Carbon apps still prefer to write type/creator instead of an extension. Others will ignore files with the right extension if they lack the proper creator. *sigh* I get asked about such things just often enough that maybe euglug will care about the answer. =)
I've got a small tool for handling the former problem, but it's not complete yet. I wrote it because too many things came with HTML docs pre-associated with Explorer (death to Explorer!) and TurboTax can't actually open last year's taxes unless they have an extension which last year's TurboTax (and this year's for that matter) don't bother to append. So currently if you feed it list of files, it will scan their resource forks, if they have them, make sure the extensions are sane for Word, Excel, Explorer-associated HTML, and TurboTax files, and then as a special case for HTML, blow away the resource fork so it comes up in a decent browser. I'm going to make it a little smarter and add some config stuff to it so people can add their own type/creator -> extensions and the like, but if someone wants the result when it's done.. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
