Re: Cp and ditto do not always copy files the same size

[James Reynolds]

I and many other lab admins are using ditto -rsrcFork to duplicate 
homefolders in our University labs and have no problem with the files 
that are duplicated.  On the other hand, cp breaks anything that has 
split forks.  I believe some lab admins are using CpMac also with no 
problems.

In the System Administration pdf on this page: 
http://www.occam.com/osx/main.html Leon towns-von Stauber discusses 
just why cp and mv don't work (page 46):

"cp and mv only move data forks and leave resource forks orphaned..."

Also on page 45 he talks more about data, resource, and attribute forks.

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Thanks,

James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
801-585-9811