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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Zoo and PC NFS
Keywords: Zoo, nfs
Message-ID: <7506@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 31 May 89 01:26:09 GMT
References: <2444@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <2444@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes:
>Our system has a central file server running PC-NFS as the E: drive.
>WHen I tried to use zoo to extract the fractint.zoo files it gave me
>an out of disk space error.

The MS-DOS zoo 2.01 uses one of the MS-DOS system calls to find out
much free space is available on the current disk.  It is possible that
PC-NFS is not emulating this system call exactly.

There are lots of possible work-arounds:

-- Extract on a non-NFS drive.  Zoo always extracts files into the
   current directory, so just switch to some other current directory first.

-- Get a listing of the zoo archive, then extract each file separately
   with redirection:

        zoo xpq archive file > file

     When piping to standard output zoo does not check for disk space.

-- Recompile zoo for MS-DOS and don't include the check for disk space

-- Extract on some other system (e.g. a stand-alone microcomputer,
   or a UNIX machine).
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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