tj@cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R. Johnson) (09/12/89)
I'm having severe problems trying to use Zoo 2.00 on my HD (an HF2000/Q80S). Whenever I try to modify a zoo archive that is on the disk or add specific files to a new archive, zoo appears to step through the entire partition before doing anything. Since my partition is 60 Meg this takes a considerable amount of time. Strangely, zoo a foo.zoo * seems to work just fine as long foo.zoo does not yet exist. Has anyone else had similar problems? Is there a more recent version of zoo out? Should I just port UnixZoo 2.01? ---Todd tj@cis.ohio-state.edu
ba@m2-net.UUCP (Bill Allen) (09/15/89)
> I'm having severe problems trying to use Zoo 2.00 on my HD (an >HF2000/Q80S). Whenever I try to modify a zoo archive that is on the >disk or add specific files to a new archive, zoo appears to step >through the entire partition before doing anything. Since my >partition is 60 Meg this takes a considerable amount of time. >Strangely, zoo a foo.zoo * seems to work just fine as long foo.zoo >does not yet exist. Has anyone else had similar problems? Is there a >more recent version of zoo out? Should I just port UnixZoo 2.01? Been having the same problem here. I have several partitions with 500+ files in them. I don't know what zoo is doing, (examining every file before -add'ing to the correct one?) but expect a length delay. Several minutes. And without any type of "still working" msg. Where is AmigaZIP???? -- --------------------------------------------------------- Reply-To: ba@m2-net.UUCP (Bill Allen Beogelein) M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI or call Sharewarer's BBS at 313-473-2020 24hrs, PCP thru MIDET, 100% Amiga ---------------------------------------------------------
pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) (09/15/89)
From article <3928@m2-net.UUCP>, by ba@m2-net.UUCP (Bill Allen): > > Been having the same problem here. I have several > partitions with 500+ files in them. I don't know what zoo > is doing, (examining every file before -add'ing to the > correct one?) but expect a length delay. Several minutes. > And without any type of "still working" msg. > Me too, zoo seems to do something very strange, when I create or list zoo archive in directory with 40+ files. Extracting somehow doesn't do anything strange. I have 20M Supradrive and 20M Vortex-harddisk on A500. -- pl@tut.fi ! All opinions expressed above are Pertti Lehtinen ! purely offending and in subject Tampere University of Technology ! to change without any further Software Systems Laboratory ! notice
rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson) (09/16/89)
Zoo seems to like to scan the entire current directory for some
operations. I noticed this when I tried to do a verify of freshly
downloaded zoo archives. I guess adding does this also. Anyway, to get
around the delay, but your pertinant files into their own directory, so
it doesn't take so long to do a the scan. This is probably the only
thing about zoo that I don't like.
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Rodger Anderson (rodger@hpdml93)
or(rodger%hpdml93@hplabs.hp.com)ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) (09/17/89)
In article <380041@hpdml93.HP.COM> rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson) writes: >Zoo seems to like to scan the entire current directory for some >operations. I noticed this when I tried to do a verify of freshly >downloaded zoo archives. I guess adding does this also. Anyway, to get >around the delay, but your pertinant files into their own directory, so >it doesn't take so long to do a the scan. This is probably the only >thing about zoo that I don't like. Not only does it add a wildcard when you don't want it to, (try 'zoo v foo' with no files that start with 'foo', and it will say it can't find foo*.zoo) but it doesn't do wildcard expansion when it would make sense to, like for extraction. ('zoo x big*' for big1.zoo and big2.zoo gives 'can't find big*.zoo) I think the unneeded directory scan is even worse than just one scan. I suspect it scans the entire directory once for each file in the directory, or something equally silly. Try 'zoo v foo' on a directory containing a hundred files or so. You'll have time for a coffee break before it finds foo.zoo. > >-- >Rodger Anderson (rodger@hpdml93) > or(rodger%hpdml93@hplabs.hp.com) -- Eric Kennedy ejkst@cis.unix.pitt.edu