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From: rp362@estevax_a.UUCP (Reiner Plaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Missing feature in zoo
Keywords: archive, zoo
Message-ID: <141@estevax_a.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 16:00:07 GMT
Reply-To: rp362@estevax_a.UUCP (Reiner Plaum)
Organization: Siemens AG ESTE3, W-Germany
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The zoo utility, distributed recently, is a very useful tool with
many features missed before.
However, I miss one feature in zoo which arc does provide, and which I 
found very useful. 
With arc, when extracting an archive, I can specify the drive and
the directory where the files are to be saved, 
e.g   arc x my_archive a:\my_dir\*.*		if all files are to be extracted 
or 	  arc x my_archive a:\my_dir\my_file
The path contained in the name of the file to be extracted is used as 
destination dir.
I could not find this feature in zoo.
Instead, i found an harmless error when extracting files with zoo. When 
I specified (on the commandline) a specific file which does not exist in 
the archive, zoo seems to run in a loop forever.

Does anyone no a solution for my problem? I think, on a system without
harddisk the normal way is (especially with big archives) to keep the 
archive in a ramdisk and extract to the floppydisk.