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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ZOO enhancement suggestion
Message-ID: <2226@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 18:18:42 GMT
References: <2216@bsu-cs.UUCP> <7358@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <7358@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP
(Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>Some means of identifying to ZOO which files are binary and which are
>not, and to do CR/LF translation upon extraction would be wonderful
>additions to the program.

Here is an excerpt from the manual for version 2.0:

     A revised version of zoo is in the works that will be able
     to write newly-created archives to standard output, and will
     also automatically perform end-of-line conversion for text
     files moved between dissimilar systems.  It will be upward
     and downward compatible with existing versions of zoo.

"Is in the works" should be interpreted liberally.

I use Chuck Forsberg's undos/todos program to do newline conversions,
but it seems to be restricted to use by ProYAM owners.  You can write
yourself a small program to do conversions, simply by stripping all
carriage returns, or by adding one before each linefeed.  This will
work for all text files except those containing line-printer formatting
for underlining.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi