[OS X TeX] Re: [OS X TeX]

Curtis Clifton curt.clifton at mac.com
Tue Sep 14 08:50:28 EDT 2004


On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:31 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 14 sept. 04, à 14:27, Curtis Clifton a écrit :
>
>> On Sep 14, 2004, at 2:24 AM, Jérôme Laurens wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is now that most xfer tools only accept flat files and 
>>> do not like directories at all.
>>> I have not yet the answer to that, only some ideas like a contextual 
>>> menu item in the finder that lets you "flaten" a TeX wrapper 
>>> directory.
>>
>> Isn't the default Finder contextual menu item "Create Archive" just 
>> what is needed here?
>
> Doesn't it create a ZIP archive instead?

Yes, but isn't that what is needed to transfer the directory and have 
it reassembled on the other end?

Jérôme indicated that the wrappers would only hide their content if 
that was the option chosen by the user.  For sharing with users on 
non-Mac platforms, it seems that the directories would have to be open.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton

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