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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Zoo and files like 0e051642
Message-ID: <285@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 31 Oct 90 08:51:23 GMT
References: <21700014@sunc7> <21700015@sunc7>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <21700015@sunc7>, fireman@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

[ avoiding to store the temporary pipe-files in an archive ]

> Actually, I should be asking, is there an easier way than the way I'm doing
> it now as in my batch file below:
> 
> stuff / -modified ! -name *.bak ! -name temp.* | zoo aIunP diffback
> zoo -delete diffback 0-9

You know, of course, that DOS' implementation of pipes involves temporary
files (those that you would like to delete).   It is really sad that DOS
doesn't recognize something like `SET TMP=D:\' to store it's tmp-files there.
Anyway, since these files are created and deleted, you might as well do it
``manually'':

stuff / -modified ! -name *.bak ! -name *.tmp [...] > %TMP%_stuff_.tmp
zoo aIunP diffback < %TMP%_stuff_.tmp
del %TMP%_stuff_.tmp

Alternatively, you can run your batch from another directory, as in:

cd \tmp
stuff \yourdir -modified [...] | zoo aIunP \yourdir\diffback

Hope this helps

Markus Fischer, Dpt. of Anthropology, Geneva