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- From: dsb@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Scott Bigham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Zoo shells
- Message-ID: <724648120@majors4.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 03:08:41 GMT
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- Organization: n. Arrangement in an orderly or logical fashion. See "miracle".
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- From the Holy Book of <1gmt2qINNgv@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- as spake by sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz :
-
- Sigh... Remedial reading comprehension, Roger:
-
- >> [...] So I
- >>consulted archie and found what was then probably the latest version,
- >>LZH201I.LZH. ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
-
- >THe latest version is LZH201L, Note: i is before l...
-
- I know that, Roger.
-
- And yes, I have recently obtained 2.01l. I still can't read the online
- help. Or the instructions. If it didn't use the same characters for
- the basic commands (extract, list) as sensible archivers do, it would be
- entirely unusable.
-
- >There is a option in LZH201L for problems with incompatible headers,
- >it the -k option.
-
- That doesn't help if you have an older version of lharc, Roger. That's
- my point. Having to upgrade your archiver every few months just to be
- able to unpack the files you're downloading is not my idea of a fun
- time. Or a good archiver.
-
- >LZH201L will default to Directory extraction with out setting any options
- >at all...
-
- Nope, sorry. I just tried.
-
- [And so this post doesn't turn out entirely negative, I did eventually
- figure out through trial and error (no thanks to the on-line help --
- another area in which Zoo excels) that -x is the necessary option to
- list/extract into subdirectories. Which, again, Zoo does for you
- automatically.]
-
- >I pitty you, wee all don't live and breath Unix...
-
- Actually, I pity you. There is _tremendous_ power available in Unix and
- the utilities that come with it. Just recently, for instance, I took a
- bunch of news articles I'd saved, stripped off the article headers (but
- leaving in the important parts), renamed the files according to their
- Subject: lines (as extracted from the files themselves), and stored them
- away in the appropriate archive files. With _one_ pipeline command.
-
- >ZOO is not used here, may be its because wee are to Clean and Green..:-).??
-
- Or perhaps because it's too advanced for you? ;)
-
- And I notice you carefully sidestepped all of my strongest points. Here
- they are again:
-
- >>Please explain to us, Roger, why a Unix ancestry automatically makes a
- >>program rubbish. Some of the most useful and powerful software on my
- >>computer (LaTeX, tcsh, byacc, flex, indent [and GCC, but I don't actually
- >>have that one ;) ]) were ported straight from Unix.
-
- >> [...] And when I
- >>can't be certain that the archive I'm creating on this machine will
- >>uncompress on another machine which has a subtly different version of
- >>the archiver, I start to distrust that archiver.
-
- And most important:
-
- >>I tried every version of Lharc I owned, Roger. _None_ of them would
- >>unpack it.
-
- Well?
-
- -sbigham
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