[haiku] Re: Archive formats with BFS support
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:20:21 +0100
Le 11 janv. 2011 à 09:51, Cian Duffy a écrit :
> On 11 January 2011 02:07, <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:l.
>>
>> Is there anyone around who worked on Haiku zip? (I think Chris Herborth
>> was the main force on the Be original.) At one point I'd hoped to use
>> netcat or similar to back up large partitions with attributes across the
>> net, but it seems that zip has to do a seek to back-write some final
>> data, so a serial stream doesn't work. I was wondering if it was possible
>> to avoid that (my guess is no).
>>
>> -- Pete --
>>
>
> As far as I'm aware, Haiku's Zip is infozip, the same as Be's. Its the same
> code.
Note though that it uses a specific extended format for storing them, that
other zip code in other OSes just discard.
So even when unzipping in Linux with xattr support you'll loose them.
François.
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