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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
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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.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi