simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales) (09/03/88)
A nice addition to zoo would be the ability to archive a large amount of data to more than one floppy. Zoo should tell us how many disks of the appropriate media types are needed, and prompt us for the floppies as needed. Having Zoo do the floppy formatting would be nice also. Each individual floppy could have one archive, perhaps with a note in it somewhere sayin 'disk 1 of 3' or something. Or a simple zoo extract (zoo x// arcfile.zoo) on each floppy could suffice, if the directory names were saved when the archive was created. I know this is a big thing to implement, but it would make Zoo usefull for those of us interested in backing up our harddisks to floppy disks.
john@tifsie.UUCP (John Maline) (09/05/88)
in article <10206@s.ms.uky.edu>, simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales) says: > > A nice addition to zoo would be the ability to archive a large amount > of data to more than one floppy. Zoo should tell us how many disks of > the appropriate media types are needed, and prompt us for the floppies > as needed. Having Zoo do the floppy formatting would be nice also. I've been using Zoo for something like this, but not quite the way you're talking about. I use Zoo to distribute ~7 Mbytes of programs/data spread across dozens of directories. Using my favorite MS-DOS chmod utility, I set the archive bit of the files I want to include. I use 'stuff -modified | zoo aI a:\xxx | filterX | command' to create the archive. Zoo errors out when the floppy fills up. 'filterX' is a program to take the Zoo output of files as they're added to the archive and change this to 'chmod' commands to turn off the archive bit, fed to COMMAND.COM which executes the commands. The floppy ends up with 1 big zoo archive and all the files in it have their archive bit reset, so they don't get picked when I repeat the command. Then I repeat the command until all files are archived. Yes, this bears a striking resemblence to the XCOPY/S/M trick from the IBM PC DOS manual. Zoo could make life easier by 1. Having an option to turn off the archive bit when a file is zoo'd. 2. (more portibly...) Having an option so that Zoo's output is a simple list of pathnames that have been 'acted upon'. This makes 'filterX' much simpler to write. Many thanks to Mr. Dhesi for his work... John Maline UUCP: ut-sally!im4u!ti-csl!tifsie!john Texas Instruments sun!texsun!ti-csl!tifsie!john PO Box 655012 M/S 3618 uiucdcs!convex!smu!tifsie!john Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214)995-3575 -- John Maline UUCP: ut-sally!im4u!ti-csl!tifsie!john Texas Instruments sun!texsun!ti-csl!tifsie!john PO Box 655012 M/S 3618 uiucdcs!convex!smu!tifsie!john Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214)995-3575 BIX: jwmaline