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From: SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ZOO Bugs
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Date: 24 Mar 90 18:50:34 GMT
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I have ZOO.TTP (and sundry other files in the package) that states that
it is verion 2.01STe 1988/08/25.  The documentation says the author is
Daan Joesephus Jitta, and gives me an arcane (to me anyway) set of
addresses.  Anyhow, I thought: Gee, here's a neat way to back up a
whole partition on a minimal number of floppies: ZOO it, then use
a program I found someplace called SPLITIT to break up the archive
into floppy-sized pieces.  Sure it's slow, but the ZOO step should run
unattended, and later I'd have a LOT fewer floppys to switch.  BUT:

1) -Backup of the directory for DBMASTER (remember that one?) fails
   on the file USEONE.HLP.  This file is readable by MORE, the desktop
   COPY command, by ARC and by  USEONE itself, so the file is OK, but
   ZOO gives "FATAL: Error reading input file."

2) (This one's less clear cut:) -backup of an entire partition eventually
   fails on " -- I/O error or disk full".  Does not matter if the archive
   is on the same partition as the data being archived or not.  Both
   partitions (15 MB each) are less than 1/2 full.  Nothing else reports
   write errors on my HD.

3) In trying to pin down the first bug, I mis-typed the folder name, and
   the system locked up.  Thus   zoo -backup foo d:\bar\*.*   will lock
   up your system if directory "bar" does not exist.  Not friendly.

Has anyone else seen these bugs?

[ I'm running TOS 1.4, with the "rainbow" patch + poolfix3 + folder100 +
  cache10 - all standard Atari stuff - on a MegaFile 60, as 4x15MB ]

I'm willing to help the author in any way I can.    Hello Daan?

/PJ                                                 SofPJF@VM.UoGuelph.Ca
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