Extracting from a zoo archive into another directory

In the examples above the destination of extraction has always been the directory where the archive file itself was in. Now we want to extract into another directory.

When zoo is executing it has a current directory or working directory. Files that have no explicit drive and directory specification⁷ are addressed relative to this directory. When zoo extracts files it (normally) creates them relative to the current directory.⁸ The default current directory is the folder the archive is in. If we want to extract into another folder we have to change the current directory. This can be achieved by clicking at the button in the zoo dialog box.

The dialog box that pops up now is the file selection handler. It is described in detail in section (page ). Here only the ``Working directory'' field is of interest. Click at this field, see the GEM file selector box appear, and select a directory to be the working directory. To select it move the file selector into that directory, then click at in the selector box.

A click at the button of the file selection handler makes it disappear. Proceed as described above now and zoo will extract into the selected directory.