[geeks] Postscript question

[Dave Kimmel]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> The "ditto" program does a deep-copy of a directory in a way that
> preserves the resource fork of "file.txt" in another file called
> "._file.txt".  You can tar the results of a ditto for archival.  This is
> how I backed up my home directory over NFS this morning.

Interesting - when I first heard about OSX being based on unix, I thought
they'd use hidden directories for the resource fork.  Sort of like the
RESOURCE.FRK directory on a DOS disk that's been used by a Mac.

How does OSX handle the resource fork on a UFS filesystem?

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca