On 31/1/02 8:59 AM, "Onno Benschop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 08:46 31/01/02 +0800, Matthew Healey wrote:
>> I am in dire need of a command line app for OSX (I need to control it via a
>> shell script) that will create a data-fork-only (BinHqx? MacBinary?) file
>> from a native mac (resource + data fork) file. This file then needs to
>> survive the rigors of an FTP upload.
> 
> I'm thinking:
> 
> tar -cf bob.tar {directoryToArchive}
> Then a binary ftp.

Tried that, unfortunately tar doesn't know about resource forks and thus
only copies the data fork.

Regards

Matthew Healey

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