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From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: How is the directory preserved when I am using the zoo archive
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Date: 19 Jan 91 04:38:59 GMT
References: <1859@winnie.fit.edu> <291@karp.albany.edu>
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In article <291@karp.albany.edu> hammond@cs.albany.edu (William F Hammond) writes:
>In article <1859@winnie.fit.edu> rcs91900@zach.fit.edu
>(Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham) writes:
>> ...
>>I have this directory called X and want to archive it:
 
[wants to recursively collect the directory]

>
>Tomas Rokicki, the author of AmigaTeX, wrote a very nice little utility
>called "Tree", which can be found on Fish Disk 306.  "Tree" simply
>lists the pathnames, relative to the current directory, of all files
>in the directory tree below the current directory.  So if "X" is set
>up the way you want it to be, make "X" the current directory and
>then enter the commands
>
>tree > T:x-treelist
>zoo  < T:x-treelist  aI  not-in-x:xarchive.zoo
>
>To reconstruct the the directory from the zoo archive, set your current
>directory to an empty directory "Y" somewhere and enter the command
>
>zoo x// not-in-x:xarchive.zoo
>
>"Tree" can also be used this way with the archiver "lharc" and the
>CRC-based file integrity checker "brik".
>
>There is also a utility called "ls" that can be used instead of "tree"
>for this purpose.

You could also use lharc.  You would then type
	lharc -r a xarchive x/#?

>
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>William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
>518-442-4625                         SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222
>hammond@leah.albany.edu              wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet
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