[OS X TeX] Unix expert help needed

[Norman Gray]

Greetings,

On 2007 May 24 , at 06.05, George Gratzer 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.

It depends what you mean by `when I send off a directory'.  If you're  
referring to creating a tarball of a directory, then a  
straightforward way to do this is at the commandline:

% cd <wherever>
% COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=1
% tar cf dir.tar dir

That creates a tarball containing the directory 'dir'.  The  
environment variable causes tar to avoid including various pseudo- 
files specific to HFS+.

All the best,

Norman


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