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From: ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Ed Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Zoo and VLT Blues
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Date: 8 Mar 90 23:18:59 GMT
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We have been ftp'ing fish disks from mrcnext, and notice that although
they extract just fine under UNIX zoo, using Amiga zoo (V. 2.0) we get
occasional corrupted files, and recently had a zoo file it couldn't
even get a total listing for.  Is there any more recent version of zoo
for the Amiga than 2.0?  (I noticed that our UNIX version seems to be 2.01)
We have tried both kermit and zmodem to transfer our .zoo file from the
UNIX system to the Amiga, and nothing seems to alter this behavior.  Has
anyone else observed this sort of behavior?  We are using a A1000, but I
don't see how that should make any difference.

Another problem which may or may not be related to the one above, is that
we specifically tried to get VLT to work, getting its zoo file from
the recently installed Fish disk #308 on mrcnext.  Everything seemed to
extract ok at the UNIX end, and seemed to transfer ok to the Amiga, but
after installing the fonts and libraries on our hard disk, trying to run
VLT resulted in an error message stating VLT: not an object module.  
Does this mean that we need some sort of assign to VLT: before the program
will run properly, or does it mean that the VLT program itself has
been damaged somehow and is no longer executable?

Thanks in advance,

Ed Friedman

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