[X-Unix] Compressing files

[Kuestner, Bjoern]

> Right click in the Finder on that directory and 
> choose "Make archive of $NAME_OF_DIRECTORY". 

Just some comments:

Panther's archiving function respects resource forks. That's good in general
but not so helpful for jpegs: a) Some apps store previews in the resource
fork which blows up the archive size, and b) the previews show up as
separate files to the receiver of the archive who is not running Panther.

You can either remove the resource forks / previews with the standard set of
tools out there (GraphicConverter, PhotoToolCM, ...)

Or use an archiver that ignores resource forks in the first place
(CleanArchiver, ...)

Bjorn


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