gavin@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Gavin C. H. Zau) (05/31/89)
I recently retrieved the zoo and fracint.zoo posting in c.b.i.p 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. This is probably due to the inability for the program to file the end of the E: drive, so it assumed that there is no more disk space left. Is there anyway to bypass this and use zoo on the nfs e: drive?? Thanks! -- Gavin Zau Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT gavin@caf.mit.edu mefl@eagle.mit.edu
dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) (05/31/89)
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> UUCP: ...!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi Career change search is on -- ask me for my resume