Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!bgalli!bga
From: bga@bgalli.eds.com (Billy G. Allie)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo bug?
Keywords: zoo
Message-ID: <409@bgalli.eds.com>
Date: 12 Aug 89 15:00:10 GMT
References: <1596@wjvax.UUCP>
Organization: BGA's home system, Dearborn, MI.
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In article <1596@wjvax.UUCP>, mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes:
> Occasionally when extracting zoo files, there will be one or two files
> that refuse to extract.  I get a message that reads something like:
> 
> 	overwrite ? yes/no/all 
> 

I will assume for the that you are using MS-DOS (I've seen this on MS-DOS,
but never on UNIX).  I have seen this error occur when I had DATAPATH (a
TSR utility that search a path for data file) loaded and the file being
extracted had the same name as a file in the data search path.  I believe
that MS-DOS 3.30 has a command called APPEND which performs this function.
Are you using such a utility?

> Since I'm extracting on an empty directory, this message doesn't make
> sense.  Yet, regardless of what answer I give, it comes back with
> 
> 	ZOO: ERROR: can't open file 
> 

If you are using a utility such as DATAPATH, it is possible that write
permission is denied for the 'found' file.
utility 
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