I am building a script for customers to upload files to our UNIX server via FTP. I have seen several arguments here against using Fetch or other programs for FTP and using the OS resources instead. The only problem with this is that we get a lot of resource fork style fonts. Uploads are going to a UNIX server. Fetch and other programs give us the opportunity to use MacBinary or AppleDouble/Single to encode the fonts to maintain the resource forks which our server software then decodes into a format that it understands.
I know there is an app in the Developer Tools that can encode files. The problem is, many of our customers won’t have the Developer Tools installed. I think it also only does Apple Double and I’d rather stick with a single file format.
If there’s a way, it would be nice to avoid having to rely on third party software to pull this off. Is there something that I can imbed as a resource in an AppleScript Studio application or another way around the quandary?
Thanks,
T.