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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: unZooing a subdirectory
Keywords: ZOO
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Date: 15 Mar 90 22:04:44 GMT
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In <45182@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (Chris Dueker) writes:
>
>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.

zoo e// ZooFileName

will extract all files the the archive, and create any directories necessary.
It isn't real well documented.

-larry

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