lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (03/16/90)
In <45182@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (Chris Dueker) writes: > >Anyway, I was wondering about extracting subdirectories using zoo. Do >I need to have the directory tree already created, ready for zoo to >stick the files in the tree? It seems as though I do. For example, I >extracted the Aquarium directory from Aquarium.zoo from #301. There is >a DATA subdirectory under the Aquarium directory. The extraction left >the files in Aquarium that should have gone into Aquarium/data. When I >"pre-created" the directory tree (otherwise empty), the extraction went >without a hitch. zoo e// ZooFileName will extract all files the the archive, and create any directories necessary. It isn't real well documented. -larry -- Entomology bugs me. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (Chris Dueker) (03/17/90)
Last night, for the first time, I got a Fish disk from the net instead of paying $3-$3.50 for each disk at my local dealer. (Cost me a couple of hours of a local phone call @1200 baud, but what th' 'ell). Anyway, I was wondering about extracting subdirectories using zoo. Do I need to have the directory tree already created, ready for zoo to stick the files in the tree? It seems as though I do. For example, I extracted the Aquarium directory from Aquarium.zoo from #301. There is a DATA subdirectory under the Aquarium directory. The extraction left the files in Aquarium that should have gone into Aquarium/data. When I "pre-created" the directory tree (otherwise empty), the extraction went without a hitch. Any suggestions? Please reply by e-mail unless you think others would be interested. (I doubt it. Everybody probably knows how but me. :-) The zoo I'm using is whichever the last zoo on the Fish disks before disk 301. (I forgot to check the version number.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Ah, Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intellegence!" "Oh, thank you, Master!" - from the movie, TIME BANDITS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov | Chris Dueker (The Code Slinger) dueker@krypton.arc.nasa.gov | Computer Sciences Corp. duke@well.sf.ca.us | Mtn. View, CA
bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (Bill Cavanaugh) (03/18/90)
>Anyway, I was wondering about extracting subdirectories using zoo. Do >I need to have the directory tree already created, ready for zoo to >stick the files in the tree? It seems as though I do. For example, I >extracted the Aquarium directory from Aquarium.zoo from #301. There is >a DATA subdirectory under the Aquarium directory. The extraction left >the files in Aquarium that should have gone into Aquarium/data. When I >"pre-created" the directory tree (otherwise empty), the extraction went >without a hitch. Use ZOO e// filename, and the directory structure will be created automatically. /************************************************************ * * * Everything above is copyright me. All rights unreserved. * * uunet!tronsbox!bleys * * * * "The perversity of the universe tends to a maximum" * * Finagle's First Law * * J. Pournelle * * * ************************************************************/
bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) (03/19/90)
In article <45182@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov writes: > >Anyway, I was wondering about extracting subdirectories using zoo. Do >I need to have the directory tree already created, ready for zoo to >stick the files in the tree? It seems as though I do. For example, I Sounds like you're doing this: zoo e file.zoo Which extracts files into the current directory. You want to do this: zoo e// file.zoo This will extract into subdirectories (from the current dir) like you want. Also, try the "zoo l file.zoo" line to ensure that the file indeed does create subdirectories -- otherwise you may want to make a subdirectory and move the zoo file into it before extracting... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Bevis Purdue Univeristy School of Electrical Engineering bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu Give me Amiga or nothing at all. Actually, I never liked spam. Spam, spam, spam, sausage, bacon and spam...