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- Notes on the Amiga version of Zoo. (2.00)
-
- Please see the file changes which should have been included with
- this distribution for a list of the changes from the previous version
- of AmigaZoo.
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- AmigaZoo supports full-length AmigaDOS filenames and can archive
- and restore a directory structure.
-
- Note, for adding comments to an archive, the Amiga's eof character
- is a control \.
-
- Thanks to some suggestions from a single drive user, this release
- of AmigaZoo has two commands to try and make their life a little bit
- easier when using AmigaZoo. The first is a command line option to
- AmigaZoo that causes it to wait for the user to press return before
- doing any disk I/O. If a "w" is the first character in the command
- AmigaZoo will wait for return. (zoo wx zfile) The other is a program,
- included in this distribution, that sets the behavior of the system
- back to how it was before a cd command is issued. This should make
- single drive users a little less loath to use the cd command. The
- program is called 'uncd'.
-
- AmigaZoo can be used advantageously with a pipe device. Though I
- have yet to see a shell that allows them to be used effortlessly, I
- have heard that they exist and would appreciate pointers to a good
- one. One use of a pipe that comes to mind, is the use of a find
- program, to archive a directory tree. A find program by Rodney Lewis
- was posted to usenet that serves nicely for this. One way of using
- this with the current CLI is to have two CLI's and type into one of
- them "find >p:list -type f -name *.c -print" then type into the other
- window "zoo <p:list aI zfile". This assumes that the pipe device is
- called p:. The same effect can be done with ram: instead of pipes but
- that will not allow both to run concurrently. Another use of pipes
- and AmigaZoo would be to use the "xp" option of zoo and output a text
- file to a paging program such as 'less' though a pipe.
-
- If you do not have the above mentioned find program and/or a pipe
- device for your Amiga, if you send me a self addressed stamped return
- mailer and a disk I will put these programs on a disk and mail it back
- to you if you send me the disk before July 1, 1988. If you would like
- me to wait until the next release of AmigaZoo is ready so you get that
- too please let me know.
-
- Please distribute all the files in this package together.
-
- This version of AmigaZoo has some known bugs in the generation
- features new to this release. These are being fixed and a new release
- will be made shortly. They do not affect normal use. This version is
- being released, as it is felt to offer significant benefit over the
- previous release, and the MSDOS version is out and this will allow
- full manipulation of Zoo 2.00 archives by Amiga users. As a new
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- release will be coming out shortly, maintainers of disk collections
- may not want to include this version, but instead wait for the next
- release. If they do want to include this version however, they are
- welcome to, subject to the conditions below.
-
- AmigaZoo is a user supported program. Zoo was written by Rahul
- Dhesi and modified to run on the Amiga by J. Brian Waters. With the
- consent of the author, I am requesting a $10-$20 contribution from
- satisfied users. This contribution is voluntary and you need not feel
- any guilt if you do not contribute. Any contributions received will
- go toward one of three things: firstly, and most importantly, they
- will be used to acquire any tools which may appear on the market to
- help make AmigaZoo better, like more optimizing C compilers or better
- debuggers; secondly, it will be used to help defray the costs of
- distributing Zoo; thirdly, if any money is still remaining it will be
- used to buy some shares of Commodore stock. In any case, you are
- encouraged to use and distribute this program in accordance with the
- conditions below.
-
- AmigaZoo is a derivative work of a program copyrighted by Rahul
- Dhesi and as such is subject to the following limitations on
- distribution:
-
- Distribution of the executable AmigaZoo is permitted
- subject to the following conditions. Any violation of
- these conditions may lead to damages in favor of the
- copyright owner.
-
- AmigaZoo 2.00 may be duplicated and distributed, or
- made available for downloading via telecommunications,
- for no fee above normal connect charges. It is
- prohibited to distribute AmigaZoo with any copyright
- notices removed. It is prohibited to distribute
- AmigaZoo and not allow the recipient to redistribute
- it. This file should be included in any distribution
- of AmigaZoo.
-
- Please note that AmigaZoo has different distribution conditions
- than the portable version of Zoo. These conditions allow any
- telecommunications service which does not claim a compilation right or
- charge a surcharge to distribute the AmigaZoo executable. These
- conditions allow AmigaZoo to be included on a disk sold at any price
- so long as you allow the recipient to redistribute AmigaZoo.
-
- Bug reports, suggestions, contributions etc. should be sent to:
-
- UUCP: {ihnp4 | backbone}!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters
- or uunet!bsu-cs!jbwaters
-
- GEnie: JBWATERS
- US Mail: J. Brian Waters
- c/o The Mackey Residence
- 1307 Alden Rd.
- Muncie, IN 47304
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