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.
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.
Distribution of the latest version of AmigaZoo will be made
through the GEnie telecommunications service. 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
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
