AW: AW: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Bob,
interesting point of view.
But if you use ditto to make just a copy of that locked file, it does make a
copy WITH the locked flag. Just not when zipping. So where is the
difference? In both cases it creates a "new file". Obviously it has
something to do with the zip container. Perhaps a zip file can't carry any
flag or at least this uchg flag? That is too deep in the system for me,
without any unix know how.
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Bob Sneidar
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Mai 2010 19:26
> An: How to use Revolution
> Betreff: Re: AW: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip
> 
> My gut feeling is that because zipping and unzipping files do not
> literally move the files, but rather create new copies of the original,
> it would be up to the zip application developer to reset flags to the
> original file's state. The OS is doing exactly what it is being told to
> do by the Zip application, and that is to create a file, and then write
> stuff to it. If you think about it for a moment, what would happen if
> the OS was told to create a new file with the locked attribute on, and
> then told to write data to it? Why, the OS would say, "Sorry chum,
> can't do that. You see, it's locked."
> 
> Bob