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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (William Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO vs PKARC
Message-ID: <3046@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 88 01:29:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: ttidca.3046
References: <3802@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> <19807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcc.tti.com (William Svirsky)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <19807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mdf@tut.cis.osu-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>STUFF is a wonderful tool.  The only major thing left to put into ZOO
>is the ability to create needed directories.  It is a real drag to have
>to create all the needed directories manually before I can un-ZOO an
>archive.

I don't know which version of ZOO you have but version 2.00 has that
capability, and I think versions from 1.5 on do also.  From the STUFF
manual:

_The primary purpose of the public domain program Stuff 1.0 is to generate
_pathnames that may be fed to zoo version 1.5 or later to allow it to
_recursively archive a directory hierarchy in compressed form.  Invoke it as
_"stuff" without any parameters to get a help screen.  Stuff should work on
_any MS-DOS system;  IBM compatibility is not a requirement.
_
_Stuff is generally used as follows:
_
_     stuff /new | zoo aI newfiles
_
_The above pipeline causes Stuff to generate a list of all files in /new and
_its subdirectories and feed them to zoo, which in turn reads each filename
_and adds that file to the archive "newfiles.zoo".  Later, the zoo archive
_can be extracted with
_
_     zoo x.// newfiles
_
_to recreate the original directory hierarchy.

One '/' tells zoo to un-zoo a directory hierarchy.  Two '/'s tell zoo to
un-zoo a directory hierarchy AND to create a directory if it doesn't
exist. 

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