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From: rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Re: Zoo unpacking wrong times  (contains a patch)
Message-ID: <420002@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 89 09:22:15 GMT
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>/ hpdml93:comp.sys.amiga.tech / grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) /  2:01 pm  Jan 24, 1989 /

>Um... I'm running the release version of 1.3 and I have my stack set to
>30000, and I occasionly get zoo seemingly just looping while trying to read
                                                ^^^^^^^
>a zoo archive. It doesn't crash (I can break it), but it is annoying to
>have to the zoo archive to ram: to look at it.

Were you trying to extract the archive or do a listing of it?  I have
found that if a zoo archive is in a directory with lots of files, and
you do v on it (zoo v file.zoo), it can take quite a long to time before
it lists the contents.  If I move the archive into its own directory,
the problem goes away.  I think zoo is doing a scan of the directory for
each file in the archive.  Doing an extract works fine.

>	fred
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Rodger Anderson (rodger@hpdml93)
              or(rodger%hpdml93@hplabs.hp.com)