[OT] .ds_store Messing Up ZIP

Charles Hartman charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
Tue Jan 3 20:07:37 EST 2006


On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Phil Davis wrote:

> dot-file removal is one of my standard steps when creating a cross- 
> platform CD. From what little I can tell, I assume those files are  
> probably Mac resource forks that only show up on a platform that  
> doesn't understand them (Windows). Is that the way you guys  
> understand them?

Not (as I understand it) resource forks (which have to do with files;  
do we even still have them in OSX??), but artifacts of the Darwin  
filesystem.

Charles




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