[geeks] Postscript question

[Dave Kimmel]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

>    I can sit and write "UNIX-ish" code in C all day on an OS X box and
> have things Just Work.  And I sit at this machine all day, every day,
> and I have yet to even notice the existence of multiple forks, though I
> haven't exactly gone looking for them.

I've heard that one of the problems with the multiple forks is that
backing up "Mac files" (as opposed to plain old files that don't have
any extra stuff attached) using tar doesn't work quite right.  Is this
still the case or has it been addressed somehow?

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca