pList compression

[Todd Higgins]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 11:55 AM, David Bovill wrote:

> Does anyone know how MacOs pList files are (optionally) compressed (ie
> preference pList files). I can't work it out or find a reference to  
> this on
> the net. I have had a few goes with zip, gzip and bzip2 without  
> success so
> far?
>

Hi David,

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but some plist  
files are in a binary format instead of just raw XML.  Apple has  
provided a command line utility that allows you to convert between  
the two formats.

NAME
      plutil -- property list utility

SYNOPSIS
      plutil [command_option] [other_options] file
              ...

DESCRIPTION
      plutil can be used to check the syntax of property list files,  
or convert
      a plist file from one format to another.


Regards

Todd