Your users are, what me might call, "ignorant luddites". The built in 'File->Create Archive' command produces a zip file in OSX. I propose that zip is indeed the native compressed format. Perhaps you should install OS 7.5 on their machines (c. 1993) to make them feel more comfortable.
James On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:21 pm, Noah wrote: > The problem is that my users want to see .sit files. > I know it's sort of silly. Zip files are foreign and frightening to > them. > I mentioned zip files, but they didn't want to deal with them. > > Is there a native OS X archive or package format? > Obviously it must have tar and gzip installed, but I wonder > how a *.tgz file would appear on the desktop or how the > GUI would handle it. > > Yours, > Noah -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
