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	Oct 12 2007	GANNET An excellent program for fast, simple tar archiving. Features such as optional AppleDouble encoding and file omissions make it useful for all purposes. (Version 1.3)		+1
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	Sep 22 2007	MACROXX I like TarPit ! I wish there would be a universal or an intel version. :-) (Version 1.2)		+1
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Oct 12 2007

MICHAEL A. There is now :-)
(Version 1.3)

Oct 13 2007

MACROXX Thank you very much !

Now the best Bzip2-Gzip archiver runs natively again on my Mac and even has been improved.

:-)
(Version 1.3)

	Sep 23 2004	FLARCH Simple. Slick. FAST! I love this thing! I go to the terminal when i need esoteric stuff, not this kind of thing. It would be great if this evolved a bit. (Version 1.2)		+1
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	Jul 12 2004	KARINA Works fine, simple to use. Some kind of progress indication would be nice (or at least some animated indication that the program is working away) would be nice as large archives can take a fair bit of time to compress on my old g3 iMac. (Version 1.2)		+1
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	Mar 13 2004	SHADOWKHAS Hey hey..... you must be that one guy frm GameRanger...Entropy? Well if it's j00, to tell ya, I'm shadowkhas (Version 1.0)		0
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	Mar 13 2004	PURBECKVIEW Yes but does it save resource fork information? (Version 1.0)		0
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Mar 13 2004

ANONYMOUS No. Who cares? I haven't seen a resource fork in a loong time.
(Version 1.0)

Mar 13 2004

MICHAEL AUSTIN Sorry, no resource-forks.

(I thought I mentioned that in the read-me).

Well, anyway, it's cheaper than some of the alternatives (free!).
(Version 1.0)

Oct 8 2004

ANONYMOUS Michael , without sounding daft! ;) What are the resource forks and is it a problem them not being included? What information is being 'lost'?

(sorry, new mac user!)

cheers
(Version 1.2)

Jan 29 2007

PHRIPLEY In MacOS (before Mac OSX). Files had two forks. The data fork and the resource fork.

As Unix has no concept of a resource fork, unix applications often behave in an unexpected manner when they encounter a resource fork (mostly they just ignore it).

Some Unix applications have been updated by Apple and others to handle resource forks.

Basically you don't need resource forks on MacOSX. The only time you would worry about them is if you were compressing a document that originated in MacOS ("Classic") and you needed to preserve that resource fork to use in Classic again.

Lots more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork
(Version 1.2)

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