Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi
From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo bug?
Keywords: zoo
Message-ID: <10021@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 19:52:44 GMT
References: <1596@wjvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1596@wjvax.UUCP> mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes:
>	overwrite ? yes/no/all 
>
>Since I'm extracting on an empty directory, this message doesn't make
>sense.

Don't forget that you are using MS-DOS and the usual laws of nature may
be occasionally suspended.  This is most likely to happen, for example,
if you have a device called CONFIGUR in your system, and later try to
extract a file called CONFIGUR.EXE from a zoo archive.

MS-DOS hates it if you have a device called by some name and you want
to create a file whose name before the dot is the same as the name of
the device.  There used to be a semi-documented CONFIG.SYS option to
require device names to be preceded by /DEV/ but it is no longer
there.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi 
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