Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters
From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: zoo
Summary: can be done if it would be a useful feature
Message-ID: <4219@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 15:35:25 GMT
References: <2996@amiga.UUCP>
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Organization: The Binary Bin
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In article <2996@amiga.UUCP>, dale@amiga.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
> 
>  I tried zoo out on the fish136 however it does not preserve the
> protection bits. Especially the 's' bit which is new in 1.3
> the 's' bit means the file is a script.  When extracting
> files with zoo the ewrd bits are all set.

If I remember correctly the version on fish136 is 1.71,  the preservation of
file attributes was added to 2.00 for the Unix version but not the Amiga version
as the docs I have indicate that the only command that supports them is delete
and that did not seem to warrent the code to preserve the bits.

 
> According to the doc's, Brian Waters did the port to the amiga.
> Can the protect bit saving be fixed in the next release?
> Dale

If it would be a useful feature it can be added to the next release.  The next
release is almost ready though (2.01).  It so far is only bug fixes... no
new features.  Any idea on how long it would be till I could get 1.3 to be
able to test the saving of the 's' bit and know which bit it is?  Any other
bits worth preserving?  Or would it be best not to try and use zoo's portable
attribute bit mask and just save and restore the raw mask.

As I am getting ready to release 2.01 shortly, now would be a good time to
send any suggestions,  bug reports etc. that anyone would like to see in
zoo on the Amiga.  Please mail them to me as I am not always able to keep up
with the Amiga news groups.

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