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From: bcc@Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sozobon C
Summary: soz*.zoo has subdirectories; needs x//
Keywords: sozobon, zoo
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.043805.2401@Eyring.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 91 04:38:05 GMT
References: <9104281836.AA06500@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Organization: Eyring, Inc.
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In article <9104281836.AA06500@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa400@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>
>I donwloaded the following files from atari.archive... SOZOBON1.ZOO, 
>SOZOBON2.ZOO, and DLIB.ARC.  I wanted to get started using C, but I am 
>greatly confused when using sozobon.  First off, when I de-compressed
>the sozobon2.zoo file, many of the files had duplicate filenames 
>(makfile, for example).  They just overwrote one another.  Should these
>files have un-compressed into folders or something? (I am using BOOZ.TTP to
>decompress the ZOO files..)
> 
Ha!  finally one that I know the answer to, and that no one else has already
answered!  The sozobon*.zoo files have subdirectories, and must be unpacked
with the 'x//' command to work properly -- otherwise, they will overwrite
each other (as you saw) and the files don't end up where they are supposed
to!  If you are using a shell, like gulam (I think that the sozobon developers
mostly use gulam) then unpack as follows:
zoo x// sozobon1.zoo *
If you are doing it from gem, zoo must be a .TTP file, and you give the
'x// sozobon1.zoo *' as the command line.  Note:  I think someone said that
this doesn't work before TOS 1.4 because earlier TOS's converted TTP arguments
to upper case -- I don't know.  The best way is probably to use one of the
shells that lets you select the sub-directory extraction as an option.

Did I get it all?  Flame me if I messed up on this one, but I think that's
how it goes.
Brian Cooper
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