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. Lines: 28 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 -- ____ | Billy G. Allie | Internet..: bga@bgalli.eds.com | /| | 7436 Hartwell | UUCP......: uunet!{mcf|edsews}!bgalli!bga |-/-|----- | Dearborn, MI 48126 | Compuserve: 76337,2061 |/ |LLIE | (313) 582-1540 | Genie.....: BGALLIE