lengrav@milton.u.washington.edu (Loren Engrav) (06/03/91)
When I try to edit the sys 7.0 system file with Resedit I receive the message "system is compressed, if you proceed it will be uncompressed". Why is it compressed? Do I care if it is uncompressed? Thanks.
nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) (06/04/91)
In article <1991Jun2.203236.16230@milton.u.washington.edu> lengrav@milton.u.washington.edu (Loren Engrav) writes: >When I try to edit the sys 7.0 system file with Resedit I receive >the message "system is compressed, if you proceed it will be uncompressed". > >Why is it compressed? Do I care if it is uncompressed? > >Thanks. Some of the resources in the System and Finder are compressed so we could make a bootable 1.4 meg floppy. To the user, it doesn't matter if the resource is compressed or not; it'll just take up more space on your disk if it's uncompressed, but that's the only effect it will have. -- Dean Yu Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc. Apple Computer, Inc. blah blah blah blah...
torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) (06/04/91)
nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes: > Some of the resources in the System and Finder are compressed so we could >make a bootable 1.4 meg floppy. To the user, it doesn't matter if the resource >is compressed or not; it'll just take up more space on your disk if it's >uncompressed, but that's the only effect it will have. Is there any way of "decompressing" a file with these compressed resources, and then "recompress" them? I'd like to poke around with that venerable tool, MacNosy, but it doesn't grok compressed CODE resources (understandably). [Actually, I only want to do this to get rid of those blasted zooming windows! Please, please, make this an option in Finder 7.1] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "And remember, whatever you do, DON'T MENTION THE WAR!"
keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun4.072822.22462@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes: > >> Some of the resources in the System and Finder are compressed so we could >>make a bootable 1.4 meg floppy. To the user, it doesn't matter if the resource >>is compressed or not; it'll just take up more space on your disk if it's >>uncompressed, but that's the only effect it will have. > > Is there any way of "decompressing" a file with these compressed resources, >and then "recompress" them? > I'd like to poke around with that venerable tool, MacNosy, but it doesn't >grok compressed CODE resources (understandably). >[Actually, I only want to do this to get rid of those blasted zooming windows! > Please, please, make this an option in Finder 7.1] I wanted to do this, too. Since decmompressing a resource is simply a matter of reading it, I wrote a little MPW tool to read in all the Finder resources and write them out to another file. I now had a file with uncompressed CODE resources. Unfortunately, MacNosy seemed to find something it didn't like and couldn't parse up the result. One culprit might be the fact that Finder doesn't ship with a CODE(6)... Unless Apple releases a compression tool, there is no way to recompress your resources. However, unless you are short on disk space, there shouldn't be a reason to do this. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. INTERNET: keith@apple.com UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith "But where the senses fail us, reason must step in." - Galileo