Ultimate file compression format?

jutusjutus
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Let's see.. it needs to:



- Preserve long filenames

- Accept long paths (unlike tar)

- Preseve icons under OS X

- Preserve resource forks (unlike gnutar)



Nice to have:

- Preserves unix permissions



So far I have tested zip, tar, gnutar, gzip, and stuffit to no avail.



a little help?



anyone with experience with hfspax?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 4
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    *bump*



    Yeah, I'd like to know too. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 2 of 4
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
  • Reply 3 of 4
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    somebody wrote a perl-based tar-wrapper that preserved file forks and stuff.



    He called it "tarw"



    http://homepage.mac.com/mattouellette/FileSharing.html



    Now an algorithm that compresses completely random data...that would be nice!



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  • Reply 4 of 4
    jutusjutus Posts: 272member
    Ok.. I've tried tarw (doesn't handle long filepaths) and hfspax (still doesn't handle OS X custom icons).



    None of the compression formats seem to handle custom icons.



    Go ahead a textedit file and replace the generic text icon with a custom one. Compress it, decompress it and see if it is still there.
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