[X-Unix] Panther "Archive" from command-line?

[Kansas Territory]

On Jul 16, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Craig A. Finseth wrote:

>    What, if any, is the command to use at the command line to 
> "archive" a
>    file in the Panther sense, that is, preserving resource forks? zip
>    doesn't seem to do it. "archive" doesn't exist.
>
> Tar can do it, but you need to include the file and its resource fork
> on the command line.  The resource forks for all files in a directory
> are in a sub-directory named something like .resource: do a
>
> 	ls -a
>
> to see it.

One of the later versions of the program StuffIT has some command line 
tools.. that can be used.

stuff -f sit5 /path/to/your/file        will create a .sit file.


Kansas



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