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From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PKZip Amiga arrives
Message-ID: <H#RYV*@rpi.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 90 08:07:28 GMT
References: <1008@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <2374@cpsc6a.att.com>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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In <2374@cpsc6a.att.com> crs@cpsc6a.att.com (Chris Seaman) writes:

-> Could you provide an example of how you use Zoo with no manual
-> intervention?  Frankly, in all the time I've been using the Amiga,
-> I've never found a need to do so.  I don't spend that much of my
-> time archiving/unarchiving files.  Besides, it seems that, in order
-> to use an archiver that requires 'no' manual intervention, one
-> would still need to 'intervene' to build the script: At least the
-> use of a text editor, and some form of command line syntax, which
-> might include determining the working directory and/or tree
-> structure to be archived.

How about this?

foreach archive ($*)
        zoo x// $archive
end

                or

foreach archive ($*)
        set newdir `strhead . $archive`
        cd $newdir
        zoo x ../$archive
        cd ..
end

                or

alias zv 'zoo v \!*'

The first will extract properly any recursive archives. The second
will correctly extract any non-recursive archives. (I'm not sure on
the syntax though... it's been a while since I wrote it.) The third,
obviously, lists an archive. You can't do any of those things with
your "simple" PKZip 1.0. 

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