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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Zoo utilities (Was: Re: DESCRIBE.TXT)
Keywords: zoo, atoz, bilf, fiz, stuff, booz, looz
Message-ID: <1149@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 88 04:25:45 GMT
References: <NELSON.88Oct30195427@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <7377@dasys1.UUCP> <3974@drivax.UUCP> <1057@bcd-dyn.UUCP> <6719@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <6719@spool.cs.wisc.edu> thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes:
<I don't think you could call it a bug. If a subdir is empty, there are
<no files, so why should stuff list it? Fastback is the same way. My
<solution to both of these is to creat a 1 BYTE bogus file to hold the
<subdir.

I don't know if this will work with ZOO, but FASTBACK will happily backup
a *zero* byte file. (We install a 0 byte default config file for one program
so it will skip an annoying prompt). 

A 0 byte file is much better as it doesn't waste a cluster of disk space,
just a directory entry. They are easily created with some versions of TOUCH.
Or you can get creative with NU...
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Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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