Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Adding resource fork support to tarfile.py

On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:45 PM, David M. Cooke wrote: > > You've got to explicitly handle the resource fork yourself. The tar > format (AFAIK) doesn't support any notion of extra metadata or > forks of a file. Tiger's tar fakes it by saving the resource fork > as a separate file with '._' ad

[Pythonmac-SIG] Adding resource fork support to tarfile.py

Dear List,I am new to the list and new to python, so please be kind :)  I've recently started playing with duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org) and really like the feature set that is offered by the project.  However, I am being stung by the thorn in Apple's side; resource forks.  duplicity uses