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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
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Subject: Re: Archivers
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Date: 8 Nov 89 16:05:38 GMT
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In article <6337@merlin.usc.edu> aliu@girtab.usc.edu (Terminal Entry) writes:
>  I have 2.01 running on Unix, (at least I think it is 2.01), and to 
>  store whole directories I move to the top directory and send a:
>
>  find * -print | zoo aI archivename
>
>  'find' will output a list with all the paths, which gets piped to zoo.
>
>  However, I haven't figured out how to do this on Amiga yet. Anyone knows of
>  a 'find' program for the Amiga? I'm running Cshell v3.03a. Any other way?

I had to find the same thing in order to package the BKDC#2 entries
for upload to xanth (more on the status of that in another letter...)

My roommate (Hi Dave!) pointed out the ``fnams'' program from the
early days of comp.binaries.amiga.  It takes a directory name (with
ending slash) as an argument and prints a list of all the files under
that directory, recursively.  On xanth.cs.odu.edu, it's available as

	/usenet/comp.binaries.amiga/volume2/dos/fnams.uu1.Z

Since I have a lot of zoo'ing to do in order to get the demos
packaged, I made an alias (using the Dillon/Drew shell):

	alias zoodir "%i fnams >pipe:names $i/ ; zoo <pipe:names aI ram:$i.zoo"

Of course, in another window I'm using DNet to upload the previously
completed zoo.  Ahh, multitasking...

	...tad