mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) (08/11/89)
Has anyone had this problem and solved it? Occasionally when extracting
zoo files, there will be one or two files that refuse to extract. I get
a message that reads something like:
overwrite <filename>? yes/no/all
Since I'm extracting on an empty directory, this message doesn't make
sense. Yet, regardless of what answer I give, it comes back with
ZOO: ERROR: can't open file <filename>
If I test the integrity of the zoo archive, it tests ok.
BTW:
The commands I use are "zoo -extract filename" and "zoo -test filename"
What gives?
Mario Dona
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The above opinions are mine alone and not, in any way, those of WJ.dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) (08/12/89)
In article <1596@wjvax.UUCP> mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes: > overwrite <filename>? yes/no/all > >Since I'm extracting on an empty directory, this message doesn't make >sense. Don't forget that you are using MS-DOS and the usual laws of nature may be occasionally suspended. This is most likely to happen, for example, if you have a device called CONFIGUR in your system, and later try to extract a file called CONFIGUR.EXE from a zoo archive. MS-DOS hates it if you have a device called by some name and you want to create a file whose name before the dot is the same as the name of the device. There used to be a semi-documented CONFIG.SYS option to require device names to be preceded by /DEV/ but it is no longer there. -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> UUCP: ...!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi (Will change to cirrusl!dhesi effective approximately August 28)
bga@bgalli.eds.com (Billy G. Allie) (08/12/89)
In article <1596@wjvax.UUCP>, mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes: > Occasionally when extracting zoo files, there will be one or two files > that refuse to extract. I get a message that reads something like: > > overwrite <filename>? yes/no/all > I will assume for the that you are using MS-DOS (I've seen this on MS-DOS, but never on UNIX). I have seen this error occur when I had DATAPATH (a TSR utility that search a path for data file) loaded and the file being extracted had the same name as a file in the data search path. I believe that MS-DOS 3.30 has a command called APPEND which performs this function. Are you using such a utility? > Since I'm extracting on an empty directory, this message doesn't make > sense. Yet, regardless of what answer I give, it comes back with > > ZOO: ERROR: can't open file <filename> > If you are using a utility such as DATAPATH, it is possible that write permission is denied for the 'found' file. utility -- ____ | Billy G. Allie | Internet..: bga@bgalli.eds.com | /| | 7436 Hartwell | UUCP......: uunet!{mcf|edsews}!bgalli!bga |-/-|----- | Dearborn, MI 48126 | Compuserve: 76337,2061 |/ |LLIE | (313) 582-1540 | Genie.....: BGALLIE