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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Re: Sez, self-extracting zoo system 2.30
Message-ID: <12074@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 6 Sep 88 16:55:16 GMT
References: <20948@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <17560004@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <17560004@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes:
| Re: sez and self-extraction

| Can you supply an additional utility (or function within ZOO) that will
| extract files from a zoo archive, even one that is in SEZ format?
| In this way, the existing SEZ overhead can remain small, but all the contents
| of the SEZ file can be manipulated as if it were a pure ZOO archive.

  The fiz and zoo utilities combined will allow you to do this. Use fiz
to find the start of the data, then check it with zoo. If the archive
contains any executables you still have to run on trust if you run at all.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me