[OS X TeX] "clean" zip files

M A markoilcan at gmail.com
Thu May 24 20:59:26 CEST 2007


On 5/24/07, Jan Anderssen <jan at linguist.umass.edu> wrote:
>
> > When I send off a directory (submitting a paper or uploading to
> > CTAN), my
> > directory has a lot of Mac specific invisible files causing work at
> > the other
> > end.
> >
> > Is it possible to make a script to get rid of this little peskies?
>
> This would only help if you send off your directories as .zip files,
> which is what I usually do:
> http://mikepiontek.com/software/mac/create-clean-archive.html
>

It is somewhat ironic that the create_clean_archive zip file when
unzipped (via 'unzip')  ends up creating a __MACOSX directory, and is
itself, thus, not very clean.

Mark A

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