[X4U] contextual menu 'create archive'

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Kansas Territory <kansast at mac.com> wrote:

> I recently used the contextual menu to take a folder and "create 
> archive"  which creates a .zip file.
> My question, is this cool as far as mac files with resource forks and
> the like ? do they survive ?

Yup.

> And my next question is if there is a command line equivalent to 
> "create archive"  that I could use in scripts.. assuming these zip 
> files maintain resource forks etc..
> 
> thanks
> 
> Kansas

Yes, there are a few CL utilities to zip Mac resource forks ok. But none
(IIRC) are included with MacOS X (weird, I know). Or at least I
downloaded mine - hfspax.

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
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