>Randy Boring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >When sending such a complex thing across the network, it has to be >encapsulated somehow. MacBinary, AppleSingle, and BinHex are the most >common forms.
noted the information regarding the origins of certain file info, lets not throw the baby out with the bath water, what you suggest is fine as long as you are moving files Mac->Mac. The poster was talking about windows being involved too. > >Maybe can't Net::FTP do the right thing it can't because it wasn't designed to give functionality beyond the UNIX command of the same name and as far as I know Unix ftp doesn't have a MacBinary option : ) > >To totally preserve the information you want (comments), they can be pulled out of the comments DB using the appropriate toolbox call and set into the JPEG file itself, which is slightly less platform dependant. In fact it would also be possible to save _all_ of the file info as an internal JPEG comment to be accessed later for whatever one would wish to have the original file info for.
