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Torsten Curdt commented on COMPRESS-281:
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Before we call this a critical bug I would rather ask why you need them.
Resources forks are mostly a relic from the classic Mac OS times. It's a HFS+
feature that I don't think we even have access to from java. They are
deprecated but still used ins some places (in e.g. webloc files). The
introduction of UTIs is just one sign that eventually they will go away
(whenever that might be).
On Mac the Finder uses `ditto` which used to be one of the few tools that
actually support resource forks. Even the 10.6 `zip` did not properly support
resource forks.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/zip.1.html
> Archives don't contain resource fork on Macs
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> Key: COMPRESS-281
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-281
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Dimple Rohara
> Priority: Critical
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> Currently, we are able to create archive on windows. But for Mac,it doesn't
> save the resource fork information. I wish there was more compatibility among
> the archives created on different Operating systems and could be used easily
> cross-platform.
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