compress/decompress on OS X

[Klaus Major]

Hi Richard and all,

> RGould8 at aol.com wrote:
>> In a message dated 11/3/04 10:59:43 AM, soapdog at mac.com writes:
>>> Also, I think that some way back Richard or Chipp create a
>>> compressin/decomprerssion utility stack in rev... search the 
>>> archives.
>>>
>>> Andre
>>>
>> If there's a compression/decompression utility stack, I'm definitely 
>> interested.   I wonder if I'm searching the wrong archives - - - I'm 
>> just not pulling up any examples of successful Mac OS X application 
>> compression/decompression.   Lots of posts about 
>> compressing/decompressing binary data into Rev stacks however.
>
> It's tedious, but not difficult:

or one can peep in the script of btn "revbackscript" of cd 1 of stack 
"revlibrary"
and search for "revcompress"/"revdecompress" :-)

It is undocumented, but does exactly that!

I did not test it yet, if someone does, please tell us if it works with 
OS X
application bundles, thanks :-)

> - get the directory which is the .app bundle
> - get its contents recursively
> - read of of those files into custom props in a stack file
> - store the short path to the file in a custom prop
>
> On the flipside, to restore:
> - walk through the custom props, writing out the stored data to the 
> stored paths.
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>  ___________________________________________________________
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Regards

Klaus Major
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