"ditto -rsrc" handles resource forks and HFS metadata.

It does not do incremental copies. I've just filed a bug report to 
request that incremental copying be added to ditto.

- Doug


On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 08:14 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Elaine" == Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Elaine> Randal L. Schwartz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> Elaine> *>
> Elaine> *>So what are other people doing?  Do I continue using 
> retrospect, and
> Elaine> *>figure out some way to relink all the broken links?  Perhaps 
> using
> Elaine> *>macperl?
>
> Elaine> Have you tried tar or stuffit for X?
>
> Unless tar's been modified, it won't know about resource forks, and
> it doesn't do incremental copies in any case.  From what I could
> gather over the weekend, the only command-line tool that knows about
> resource forks is "CpMac" in the /Development/Tools/ bin.
>
> stuffit also doesn't do incremental copies.
>
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