Actually this is a bad idea under OSX. Even though this is a perfect solution for copying some files, many files and applications in OSX still have resource info attached to them. I'm stuck with 5gigs of data that I am slowly resurrecting by reseting the file creators etc. (no backup).
Anyhow, if you want to use the command line to copy files around, a PERFECTLY SOUND solution as Brian points out, you need to use the following command instead:
ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users
Do a man on ditto to learn more.
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 02:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not use shell() on OS X?
get shell("cp -R /MyFolder/MyApp.app /AnotherFolder/MyAppCopy.app")
Brian
The only thing that didn't work using native MetaCard routines in OSX was
copying the 'Mach-O' resource from an '.app' package. There was some kind of
corruption going on, and I couldn't track it down any further than to the
Metacard engine itself.
Sincerely, Simon _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
