On Thursday 27 June 2002 09:38 am, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> Ned Konz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 04:42 am, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> > > Also you loose the hfs creator and file type with zip and gz.
> >
> > I thought there were specific Mac Zip extension fields that
> > encoded these things. If you make the zip with a Mac zip utility
> > (not my Squeak Zip support) on a Mac it should work, no?
>
> Yup, I found one that does this:
> http://www.vampiresoft.com/Products/MacOS/SmartZip.html.
> Probably others do this as well.
>
> Is this stuff hard to add to the squeak zipper so we don't have to
> use propritary tools ?

Depends.

1. What is the exact format for this particular Zip extra field?
2. How do we get the required info about a file from within Squeak?
3. When do we want to do it? Presumably when a file is added to a zip?

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