Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!gamma!pyuxp!pyuxe!pyuxf!asg From: asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ZOO vs PKARC Summary: try zoo x// Message-ID: <393@pyuxf.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 88 14:40:39 GMT References: <3802@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> <19807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <973@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> Organization: Bell Communications Research Lines: 73 In article <973@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>, jgray@toad.UUCP writes: > In article <19807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, mdf@tut.cis.ohio-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've noticed the same limitation to the point I refuse to use ZOO. DOS is > such a pain there is no way to automate the process of CD'ing and MKDIR'ing > to hell and back just to unarchive a complex collection. > I tried experimenting with ZOO about a year ago and had hoped that this was > just a lack of maturity in the product and I might test it again when it grows > up. Sad to here that after a year it has not. > > There is one possibility though. We both might be misusing the product. > How do all you ZOOites out there unpack a ZOO archive into non-existent > subdirectories? If you created your zoo archive with directory information saved (which I assume you did; it's the default), then try zoo x// archive file_list to retrieve the listed files, creating directories as needed. If you want to get every file in the archive (i.e., burst the archive), try zoo x// archive This works for me both on Unix and PC-DOS. > 1) Blind packing of everything in present directory down into one > archive file. zoo a archive * or zoo aM archive * (to delete files after creating archive) > 2) Same as (1) but onto multiple floppies, network (PC-NFS or NOVELL) > drives and/or tape drives. I don't think ZOO currently supports this, but neither does ARC, or PKARC, to the best of my knowledge; you have to use BACKUP. > 3) Blind unpacking of archive (we don't know what sub-directories are > needed). zoo x// archive > 4) Archive inquiries. > a) a directory of everything on archive. zoo l archive > b) intelligent file/directory searches with RE wild cards > (i.e. unix like "FIL*[A-Z]*.*Q*" search strings) zoo l archive 'fil*[a-z]*.*q*' you can eliminate the single quotes on MS-DOS, but you need them on Unix. > c) file/directory statistics (size, dates, CRC, etc.). Part of the normal directory. > 6) Peculiarities in going from DOS and UNIX. I would love to hear if > there is a good automatic algorithm for conversions of mixed > case, longer than 8 character Unix filenames into DOS > filenames. I suppose truncation isn't considered a good algorithm ... Actually, I believe the full name is stored in the archive; the case conversion and truncation happens when you extract the file. Alan Geller I have no connection with ZOO or Rahul Dhesi, other than as a highly satisfied user. Bellcore My employer couldn't care less what I think, so neither should you.