[comp.sys.amiga.games] Zap

mager@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Rainer V Mager) (02/05/91)

Maybe this isn't in the write place, but at least this has a high
reading so maybe someone will answer quickly:

What is the .zap suffix, I got an approx 500000k file off of
abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov called c64music.zap (it was in incoming/amiga) and
I can't un archive it, any help would be appreciated.  Thanx

Rainer

P.S.  Wouldn't it be nice if someone wrote an archiver that became
established is the ONE and ONLY archiver to use so I don't need to have
one disk dedicated to holding twenty archivers.  Well C U.

 

tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) (02/06/91)

In article <87630@unix.cis.pitt.edu> mager@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Rainer V Mager) writes:
> What is the .zap suffix, I got an approx 500000k file off of
> abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov called c64music.zap (it was in incoming/amiga) and
> I can't un archive it, any help would be appreciated.  Thanx

Gee, a 500 megabyte file?  
The ftp disk on ab20 (not abcfd20) isn't even that big!

Try /incoming/amiga/ARCHIVERS/zap141.lzh (untested), or
/usenet/comp.binaries.amiga/volume90/util/zap-2.04.Z ...

> Wouldn't it be nice if someone wrote an archiver that became
> established is the ONE and ONLY archiver to use so I don't need to
> have one disk dedicated to holding twenty archivers. 

HA!  I'm sorry I couldn't find the original text, so I'll have to do
this from memory...

-------
The master notices a novice becoming frustrated working with his terminal.
The master says, ``What is troubling you?''

``Master, this editor is horrible.  Someday I'll write my own editor,
and it will do everything it should!''

Upon hearing this, the master strikes the novice.

``Why did you hit me, master?''

``Because I don't want to have to learn another editor!''

The novice was enlightened.
-------

	...tad

tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) (02/06/91)

In article <TADGUY.91Feb5132449@ab20.larc.nasa.gov> tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes:
> /usenet/comp.binaries.amiga/volume90/util/zap-2.04.Z ...

Scratch that -- this is a binary file editor, not a zap archiver.
I wasn't thorough enough in my search...

	...tad

Marcus@cup.portal.com (Mark W Shnayer) (02/12/91)

#	This is a shell archive.
#	Remove everything above and including the cut line.
#	Then run the rest of the file through sh.
# Here is my working copy of Zap v1.41. I never tried zapping from ram:
# so if theres a problem try unzapping the file from hard drive or floppy
# Marcus@cup.portal.com
#
#----cut here-----cut here-----cut here-----cut here----#
#!/bin/sh
# shar:    Shell Archiver
#	Run the following text with /bin/sh to create:
#	zap.uu
# This archive created: Mon Feb 11 18:30:14 1991
cat << \SHAR_EOF > zap.uu
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student@covax.co.iup.edu (student) (02/28/91)

     A few days ago I FTP'd some demos with the extension .ZAP from
ab20 and uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu.  (The demos are MentalHangover.ZAP
and C64Music.ZAP.)  I also got a file, zap141.lzh, from ab20.
Un-lharc'ing the zap141.lzh file produces a 5K .DOC file, as well as
a 5K executable.  The executable seems to work, telling me "about to
write to df0:, press return."  I press return and wait, while the
screen flashes in blue.  After a minute or so, the computer either
completely crashes or guru's.  The command I use is
zap w MentalHangover.ZAP
when both zap and MentalHangover are in ram:.  (I have a single disk
drive only.)  It looks as if it should work, but zap crashes no matter
what I pull.  Could anybody please tell me what I'm doing wrong, because
I'm just about at the end of my rope.  (I have an A500 with 512K chip,
512K fast, and only the internal drive.)

Carlos
Disclaimer: Direct all flames to /dev/null
Please post to the net, as mail sent to this account exhibits slightly
caoutchoucous properties.

amiga@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Boing) (03/01/91)

In article <46045@nigel.ee.udel.edu> student@covax.co.iup.edu (student) writes:

)     A few days ago I FTP'd some demos with the extension .ZAP from
)ab20 and uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu.  (The demos are MentalHangover.ZAP
)and C64Music.ZAP.)  I also got a file, zap141.lzh, from ab20.

wow, someone actually uses our site.  I am not sure where your problems
stem from, but there is a later version of zap (zap_2.04.lzh) which can
be found in amiga/Amiga/Util/Disk on uhccux.  I'm not familiar with zap
or the demos in question, but it may help.

-baron