I thought that command-line tools in Tiger were suppose to be Mac/ resource-fork-savvy? Is the zip command not included in this, or am I missing something? When I zip an applescript application at the command-line and then unzip it, I end up with what the Finder thinks is a "classic application", which I presume indicates that the resource fork was not preserved. There's an oddity. The man page for zip says that there is a -S option which: "Includes finder invisible files, which are ignored otherwise". But when I try to use this option it returns an error saying that it is an invalid option. Have I somehow ended up with an out of date zip command? "which zip" says it is in /usr/bin Or to put this another way, what does the "Archive" command in the Finder do? I want to do that from the command-line. Steve