[MacPerl] Re: MacPerl CD-ROM frobs

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

Got this from Chris Nandor; thought it might be of general interest:

> >  For similar reasons, we leave the unconverted (though uncompressed)
> >  text files lying around (if they were NOT part of a tar archive).
>
> By unconverted text files, do you mean they will be UNIX text files?
> Might be good to make them Mac files, oui?

The notion here is that, when we modify files for Mac use, we should
keep unmodified copies around, in case we break something.  That way,
the user has a chance to go back to the original form and try again.

-r

P.S.  The details get a little tricky.  For instance, if foo.gz is a
      compressed text file, we save it, then expand and Macintize a
      copy.  In the case of foo.tar.gz, we save the gzipped archive,
      unpack a copy, and Macintize any contained text files.  In the
      case of a text file named foo, we save the unMacintized form,
      then Macintize a copy.  At least, that's the current plan...

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