Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ZOO vs PKARC Message-ID: <3657@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 05:12:28 GMT References: <3802@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> <19807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <973@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 23 In article <973@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> jgray@toad.pilchuck.Data-IO.COM writes: >How do all you ZOOites out there unpack a ZOO archive into non-existent >subdirectories? (Hmmm...while we're on the subject, how do you ARCites unpack an ARC archive into non-existent subdirectories? Inquiring zoo users want to know.) Anyway, I looked in the zoo 2.0 manual, and here is what it says: / Extract to original pathname. Any needed directories must already exist. In the absence of this modifier all files are extracted into the current directory. If this modifier is doubled as //, required directories need not exist and are created if necessary. I suspect a lot of people are relying on the help screen alone and have not really read the manual. Admittedly, the manual needs some improvement, but the information *is* there. The same information is repeated in the Stuff 1.0 manual too. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP:!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi