Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!targon!andre
From: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Please use ZOO!
Message-ID: <564@targon.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 89 09:16:07 GMT
References: <8906292158.AA01546@jade.berkeley.edu> <576@kullmar.se>
Reply-To: andre@targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen)
Organization: Nixdorf Computer BV., OSP, P.O. Box 29,Vianen, The Netherlands
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In article <576@kullmar.se> bk@kullmar.se (Bo Kullmar) writes:
>WSCART01@ULKYVX.BITNET writes:

>><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.

>> I find it rather insulting that some IBM users would rather not have a

>I think that it is a fact that a normal PC user do not use Zoo. It is the
>unix/usenet community that has chosen zoo, not the PC community!

A normal PC user also still uses edlin :-)

(couldn't help myself)
more seriously, in comp.binaries ibm pc there are also postings of
documentation and sources. It is very handy to be able to look into
an archive before downloading it and spending money on downloading.
Also, the pkarc and arc structures have changed over time so that users
get the 'I think you need a newer version of arc' message and can't
use the stuff before they get their hands on a new version.
Zoo is always downward compatible (that's in its copyright notice)
and you can always unpack something on unix before downloading, remember
news is build on a network of unix machines.

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