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From: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <469@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 17:23:06 GMT
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Reply-To: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass)
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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It seems that one of the big reasons people like Zoo is it's handling of
directories.

I've written a little program which uses PKARC to pack a directory structure
into an arc.  All it does, is create .ARC files of each subdirectory, and arc
these subdir arcs into the main archive file.

Conversely, the unpacking program, de-arcs the specified archive, and
any result .ARC files are de-arced into directories of the same name (created
if necessary).

For example, consider the following structure:
    . ----data
       |--plots
       |--oldstuff--foo
       
The files in the foo subdir are arc'ed into a file FOO.ARC, which is in
turn archived into a file with all the files in oldstuff dir to make an
OLDSTUFF.ARC, etc, etc, and finally DATA.ARC, PLOTS.ARC, and OLDSTUFF.ARC
are arc'ed into one archive file.

Granted, this takes longer, as data must be arc'ed several times, but this
is not much of a problem, as PKARC blows away ZOO speedwise anyway.

If there is sufficient interest, I'll post this program.  If there isn't,
I won't.

-dalegass@dalcsug.uucp