Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!grwalter
From: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Zoo Bug....
Message-ID: <25674@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 89 13:41:34 GMT
References: <8904290204.AA00910@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <8904290204.AA00910@jade.berkeley.edu> CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) writes:
>I'm running Zoo V2.00 and although i can't believe it,
>Zoo has been running for 20 minutes, and STILL hasn't even
>gotten around to starting COMPRESSING....
>zoo is running in a directory with approximately 60 files in it
>of varying lengths and sizes...
>
>zoo -move cc cc.c config.h dstr.? list.? err.c op.? options.?
>
>all in all, about 12 files..

This is a known zoo 2.0 (and earier versions) problem. It does wildcarding
in a .. very slow .. way, and thus if you have lots'a files (60 counts as
lots) it takes a while. Multiply the time it takes to handle one filename
by 12, and I can believe it'd take > 20 minutes. Solutions : be very
patient; execute zoo from a directory where there aren't many files; OR
wait until the version of zoo with this fixed turns up :-)

	fred