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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO and c.b.i.p
Summary: If you need files that are available, get them!
Message-ID: <3315@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 25 Jun 89 13:42:09 GMT
References: <2136@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <2136@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>Thanks to all of you who wrote to me about the ZOO changeover.  I wasn't
>reading c.b.i.p.d at the time (I am now).
>But, here is my problem with ZOO usage (my two cents, no discussion required),
>I am a SYSOP of a BBS.  The common archive method is ZIP, with ARC second.
>So what I have to do now is unZOO the file and then ZIP up so that my users
>can get at the file.  The last thing they want is another archive program.

I'm also a SYSOP.  I post archives in whatever form they come, and I
have the extractors available.  If a user needs to download a small
extractor (BOOZ is about 20K), that his his/her problem.  Why to you
feel that you have toprotect your users in this way?

>Also, even though it has been pointed out to me that ZOO will work across
>many systems, the programs posted to c.b.i.p will only work on PCs.  So
>who cares if they can be unZOOd on another computer.  They sure ain't gonna
>work there.

Yeah, the other versions are posted to the appropriate newsgroups.
For some reason, I had to get the Atari version from the Atari newsgroup
for example.  You really want stuff for other machines posted here for
your convenience?

Anyway, where do you get material for other computers if you only read
this newsgroup?  The places you get ZOO archives are generally places
you can also get ZOO.


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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