Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!svirsky 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 Lines: 37 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. -- Bill Svirsky, Citicorp+TTI, 3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405 Work phone: 213-450-9111 x2597 svirsky@ttidca.tti.com | ...!{csun,psivax,rdlvax,retix}!ttidca!svirsky