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From: bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: unZooing a subdirectory
Keywords: ZOO
Message-ID: <26026b34:5946.1comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 17:27:08 GMT
References: <45182@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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>Anyway, I was wondering about extracting subdirectories using zoo.  Do
>I need to have the directory tree already created, ready for zoo to
>stick the files in the tree?  It seems as though I do.  For example, I
>extracted the Aquarium directory from Aquarium.zoo from #301.  There is
>a DATA subdirectory under the Aquarium directory.  The extraction left
>the files in Aquarium that should have gone into Aquarium/data.  When I
>"pre-created" the directory tree (otherwise empty), the extraction went
>without a hitch.

Use ZOO e// filename, and the directory structure will be created
automatically.

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