March 2003 Archives

Smarter Disk Images

By Alex McHugh on March 8, 2003 11:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

As of 10.2.3, it's possible to have disk images that will mount and auto copy their contents to their parent directory then unmount and move the .dmg to the trash. This was demonstrated by Safari public betas. This is done via a special flag which is set after the disk image is mastered.

I wonder how this would work for dmg files mounted from a CD-ROM. Would this be a simple/smart way to do installs?

It definitely eliminates the need for stuffit expander, particularly in conjunction with the ZLIB compressed disk image format that is supported post 10.1

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