Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: How is the directory preserved when I am usin Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 91 13:18:08 GMT References: <1859@winnie.fit.edu> <697@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Lines: 38 >In article <697@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: >In article ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: >||In article <1859@winnie.fit.edu| rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham) writes: >||Examples : >|| >||I have this directory called X and want to archive it: >|| >||files : a b >||directories : X C >|| >|| X/a >|| X/b >|| X/C/a >|| >|| >||How would I go about archiving directory X so that file ||C when I unarchive it >| >|zoo a ruru.zoo X/a X/b X/C/a > >I believe that zoo a ruru.zoo X/#? works too. You're wrong, it doesn't work that way. Zoo doesn't understand '#?'. It does understand '*' as a wildcard, but: zoo a ruru.zoo X/* wouldn't archive directory 'C' or file 'a' within directory 'C'. As they say, RTFM. >Dave Schaumann | And then -- what then? Then, future... >dave@cs.arizona.edu | -Weather Report -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |