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Re: Easy way to unpack a package?

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From: chrisr...@mac.com (Chris Ridd)
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Subject: Re: Easy way to unpack a package?
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 19:09:38 +0100
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by: Chris Ridd - Wed, 18 May 2022 18:09 UTC

On 18/05/2022 09:46, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> In article <1ps0ll6.xzq1at16dkko6N%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl>,
>> J. J. Lodder <jjlax32@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> Is it true that a package is nothing but a folder with an extension,
>>> and the other way round?
>>
>> As far as I can see - and I could be wrong - a folder is recognised as
>> a package if its kMDItemContentType is set to something the Finder
>> knows is a package type. That gets set by the system when you create
>> a folder with a konwn extension. I think it should be possible to
>> change the content type without changing the extension, but it will
>> get set back again if for any reason the system regenerates the
>> metadata.
>
> Just found another unexpected way to easily get at the package contents.
> Right Click -> Open With -> BBEdit gives you a new BBEdit window
> with the package contents in view.
> You can drag them out. This copies, it doesn't displace,
> so it leaves the package intact,

BBEdit is great for opening zip files, tarballs, and all sorts of other
files "containing" internal directory structures and other files.

--
Chris

"Nuclear war would really set back cable." -- Ted Turner

aus+uk / uk.comp.sys.mac / Re: Easy way to unpack a package?

Subject	Author
Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	David Brooks
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	David Brooks
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	David Brooks
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	whisky-dave
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	David Brooks
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	TimS
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	Alan B
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	Andy Hewitt
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	David Brooks
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	nospam
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	TimS
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	Richard Tobin
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	Richard Tobin
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	Alan B
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	nospam
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	Alan B
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	J. J. Lodder
Re: Easy way to unpack a package?	Chris Ridd