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From: Alex.Valdez@actrix.gen.nz (Alex Valdez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: My stupidity
Message-ID: <1991May30.110730.3478@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 30 May 91 11:07:30 GMT
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In article <16582@helios.TAMU.EDU> n160ao@tamuts.tamu.edu (Mark Lehmann) writes:
...
> I have a problem though.  The sozobon files have directory names that
> I want to keep.  If I use the novice "zoo -extract" command, all of the
> files are retrieved without pathname.  I looked at the man pages and 
> tried the followin command:
> 
>     zoo {x}[//] d:\term\download\sozobon1.zoo
> 
> But zoo doesn't understand and just give me the usage line.  Would someone
> tell me the proper zoo command and flags needed to retrieve zoo files with
> their original pathnames.  
> 
> Thanks
...
> 
> Mark Lehmann
> tamuts.tamu.edu!n160ao

Were you trying to run zoo from the desktop and do you have TOS 1.0?
The TOS 1.0 desktop converts all TTP parameters to uppercase. So,
instead of zoo seeing a -x option, it sees -X which it doesn't
understand. Try using a CLI (one that doesn't convert parameters to
-- 
================================Alex Valdez=============================
"Alas sais na naman, oras ng pagdidili-dili...
 Isaisip ang mabuti, ang masama'y iwaksi..."