That's what I thought too, but I just tried zip again, with -rv options, this time on my PowerMac at home, and along with it doing the weird thing with folders, no it doesn't seem to preserve resource forks. So much for command-line integration! However, jogme's ditto command does seem to work like a charm! Thank you joame - that's what I was looking for! Steve On Jun 24, 2005, at 8:11 PM, ~flipper wrote: > There's actually a -df option to include 'only' the data fork in a > simple command line 'zip' process, so, it sounds like the resource > forks are included, as a default, in MacOS, anyway. The '-df' is > for zipping stuff to send into PC-land. _________________________________________________________________ Stephen Jonke sjj_public at mac.com