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Re: [MacPerl] CPAN



Chris Nandor wrote:
>>
>>StuffIt Expander with the Expander Enhancer converts from UNIX to Mac
>>linebreaks automatically (at least for me) and 'tar' for the Mac also has
>>the option to do this.
>
>Hmmm ... I just looked at it, and it does NOT do this when expanding .sit
>files.  But it did do it properly when expanding my .tar.gz archive.  So
>there you have it ...
>
>Sounds like more evidence in favor of just doing .tar.gz and forgetting Mac
>formats ...

Oh ... right, I was referring to it's handling of .tar.gz files ... and I
was implying that .tar.gz files shouldn't be a problem for us Mac folks (I
speak for myself).

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