Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ZOO and comp.binaries.atari.st
Message-ID: <2492@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 89 16:02:47 GMT
References: <619@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <619@chyde.uwasa.fi> hv@chyde.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) writes:
>I don't know how widely ZOO is used in Atari ST world but I
>think that we should consider to change our "manners" in such
>a way that comp.binaries.atari.st could use ONLY ZOO as the
>one and only archiving pgm instead of ARC.

ZOO is not widely used (yet).  It is new, and has been distributed.
Have you tested or used it extensively on the ST?   Are the sources
freely available?

ARC is also available on the PC and on the UNIX system, so that argument
alone that other systems use ZOO does not carry much weight with me,
and that alone is not enough to persuade me to switch.

I looked at the documenatation that is in our manual on the UNIX
system here, and the explanations look HORRENDOUS!  Two levels of
commands do not help, awkward syntax for simple semantic do not help,
and I saw a plea for help from someone who had simply misplaced
a punctuation mark.  That says to me not carefull planning.

On the plus side, I think that the big advantage of ZOO is that
one can store directory path information along with the file.

Convince me please!  What other feature do you find that is compelling
enough to convince the world to give up a reliable piece of software
in favour of a new one that probably still has bugs in it.

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