ZIP on OS X

[Trevor DeVore]

On Dec 14, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Klaus Major wrote:...
>> This worked for me.  Took a 60KB file down to 28KB.
>> ditto -c -k -X --rsrc RevolutionScreenSnapz001.pdf test.zip
>> -X keeps the archive from descending into directories that have a 
>> different device ID
>
> Don't get this one...

I'm not positive but I assume it won't go into a directory that points 
to another harddrive, etc.  I'm just guessing though.

>> and -k signifies a PKZip archive as opposed to a CPIO archive.
>
> ...but this one :-)
>
> Yeah, great, works fine!!! Thanks!
>
> And how can i decompress the resulting file again?

ditto -x -k test.zip test

-x tells ditto that the first file is an archive.  -k tells it that the 
file is pkzip rather than cio.  This will output the contents of 
test.zip to a folder named test.



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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com