If you are writing applications for Mac OS 8-9, extracting the
application from the bin file on a PC will destroy the resource forks.
Stuff the bin file instead of extracting the application from it. I'm
not sure exactly what would happen if your application is designed for
OS X, but I've noticed a little flakiness with OS X as well.
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From: gettingstarted-bounces at lists dot realsoftware dot com
[mailto:gettingstarted-bounces at lists dot realsoftware dot com] On Behalf Of
Joseph J. Strout
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:23 PM
To: ascii at 1st dot net; Getting Started
Subject: Re: Windows IDE to build for Mac
At 8:21 PM -0400 7/29/04, Jay Rimalrick wrote:
>Yes, the file size is important to me. I want it to be as small as
>possible.
Then you should repack it on a Mac into StuffIt (.sit) format.
> So should I just use the windows version of stuffit to change the
>.bin file to a .sit file?
No, that won't work.
> What kind of compression difference can I expect?
Quite large. (MacBinary -- .bin -- is not a compression format; it's
just a wrapper for two-fork files and metadata and is in fact larger
than the original file.)
Best,
- Joe
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