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From: cur022@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Problem with ZOO & DOS 4.01
Message-ID: <9839@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Dec 89 08:14:16 GMT
References: <470007@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <470007@hplsla.HP.COM>, larrys@hplsla.HP.COM (Larry Sanders) writes:
> I have used zoo and zoox on my 386 machine, DOS 3.3 and it works flawlessly.
> On my daughter's 386sx machine with DOS 4.01 zoo ( and zoox ) creates 
> zoo archives just fine.  The reverse is less reliable. Extracting 
> files it skips some - and says it is skipping them.  The same zoo 
> archive extracts correctly on my machine.

ZOO usually skips files if they are already present in the current directory.
I presume this is not the case here.

However, ZOO can be fooled (as can most other programs) by the use of APPEND or
something like DPATH, which provides a 'path' for searching for non-executable
files. It might then find the name somewhere along that path, assume (as it is
meant to) that the file already exists, and skip it. 

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