Existing users, 
Place a copy of an image on your desktop. If it doesn't have an icon, save it using GraphicConverter so it does.
Crank it through the TAR utility of your choice. When you bring it back, the desktop icon has vanished, leaving the bare file. In other words, GnuTar, et al., left to their own devices, IGNORE Macintosh legacy file resource forks. In effect, stripping them off.
In the context of Mac, you need to use MacBinary AS WELL AS Tar.
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Try this first
Feedback Type: Usage Tip
Contributed by: grikdog Sunday, March 21 2004 @ 07:24 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
Comments
hfstar + freetar - fizik
Use hfstar instead of standard tar - it preserves the resource fork. Use Freetar as a GUI - it allows to specify Unix executable (hfstar) in Prefs.Thursday, November 30 2006 @ 11:17 AM PST
hfstar + freetar - John Sawyer
freetar has disappeared from the Internet and is nowhere to be found. hfstar isn't compiled, so the average person won't be able to get it to work. Anybody know of a zip util with a GUI interface that will retain Mac resource forks?Wednesday, April 04 2007 @ 02:06 PM PDT
Re: Try this first - web_bug
Even though it has been said, I just have to point out . . . it is a wrapper for tar, which, ah, does not preserve extended file attributes. Which is exactly why you might want to use tar in the first place.Thursday, June 21 2007 @ 02:47 PM PDT
Try this first - hombre
It says it's a wrapper for tar. What did you think it was going to do?Reply to This
Friday, February 11 2005 @ 10:24 PM PST