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From: magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM (Darrin A. Hyrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Archivers
Summary: You must be talking about unix
Keywords: packers zoo unix amiga
Message-ID: <8911092330.AA07838@sorinc.PacBell.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 00:30:51 GMT
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In article <987@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu (ERIC SCHWERTFEGER) writes:
>In article <5859@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> auyeung@iris.ucdavis.edu (Tak (UlTech) AuYeung) writes:
>>In article <984@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu.uucp (ERIC SCHWERTFEGER) writes:
>>> [... deleted]
>>>	 One important feature of LHarc 1.00 as opposed to zoo is that
>>>LHarc has an option to recursively archive directories.
>>>
>>>Eric Schwertfeger, UNLV, maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu
>>
>>Zoo can recursively compress /  decompress, use the "/" option.
>>
>>--Tak
>
>What version of Zoo do you have?  I have 2.01, and I have to specify every
>directory myself.  Yes, zoo will store the full path name, but in order to
>zoo the fonts directory, and all subdirectories, for example, you would
>need to "zoo a foobar fonts:*" then "zoo a foobar fonts:topaz/*", etc, for
>each individual subdirectory.	lharc on the other hand will automatically
>lharc all the directories if you "lharc -r -x a foobar fonts:*"

  Yes, Eric is right. Under Amiga Zoo (as of the 2.0X releases) there is no
support for recursive directory storage. One must either specify them by
hand one at a time, or use a program such as pname or something like that
to store a recursive list of filenames with full path extensions into a
file which can be read by Zoo. I have no idea if they are planning to
confront this problem in a later release (especially since 2.01 was
released 2-3 years ago), but most folks I know have switched over to LHarc
for all purposes for this reason among the various other excellant reasons
to do so.

  Funny thing is that UNIX Zoo handles recursive directory trees just fine,
and its not hard at all to do directory tree transversal on the Amiga so
there really isn't any excuse.

>Eric Schwertfeger, UNLV, maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu

  We now return you to your previously scheduled discussion.
--
Darrin A. Hyrup 	     // AMIGA Enthusiast	 rencon!esfenn!dah
magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM   \X/ & Software Developer   pacbell!sorinc!magik
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