Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <10708@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 4 May 88 12:24:26 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1424@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <8405@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: Zoo Arc

In article <8405@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) writes:
| carlp@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Carl Paukstis) writes:
| >
| >Zoo is inherently a better system.  I does indeed handle the directory
| >structure, which is a feature taken much too lightly by many who argue for
| >ARC.  It also includes comment facilities for the archive and for the
| >individual files.
| 
| HOW does one add comments to the overall archive?  (Or does it take two?...)
| I have version 2.00 zoo, 2.00 zoo documentation, and there's one hint that
| v2.0 can add archive comments.  But the switches only seem to add file
| ...

The 'A' modifier causes the 'c' (comment) or 'g' (generation) command to
apply to the archive as a whole rather than any individual. This info is
on the one screen help, but you have to know what to look for before you
can see it ;-)
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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