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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO vs PKARC
Summary: OOPS!
Message-ID: <3647@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 88 18:48:35 GMT
References: <3802@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> <19807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <19807@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mdf@tut.cis.osu-state.edu (Mark
D. Freeman) writes:
>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.

Bill Davidsen has suggested (quite gently) that the zoo documentation
could use some improvement, and I'm beginning to (reluctantly) believe
him.

It *is* a real drag to manually create all needed directories, but only
if you don't tell zoo to do it for you:

     zoo x archive     -- extract files into current directory
     zoo x/ archive    -- extract files into correct subdirectories,
			  but subdirectories must already exist
     zoo x// archive   -- extract files into correct subdirectories,
			  creating subdirectories as needed
     zoo x.//          -- as above, but create all subdirectories relative
			  to current directory
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi