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From: mj@myrias.uucp (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: why zoo...
Message-ID: <615670847.12121@myrias.uucp>
Date: 5 Jul 89 19:40:46 GMT
Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton
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In response to Lee Dickey question why zoo is preferable over arc.
Besides of a possibility of storing the whole tree of subdirectories
(which can be fairly important, but can be achieved also with arc'ed  
shar or tar format) there is also a business of recovery.

Recently I had a dubious pleasure of receiving a huge corrupted zoo
archive -  gdb sources from terminator server.  It would be a total
waste if this would be compressed with arc.  Using fiz and editor I was
able to recover everything but two(?) files, which I replaced with some
luck.  It is true that I had to recompile fiz, since posted version
apparently is writing directly to a console, instead of stdout, and
I had no way to capture it's output to a file.  It was far too big to
be dealt with by hand.  After I done that a quick run of awk on output
file, which produced a command file for gulam, was all what was needed
to enable an automatic rescue operation.  Does anybody know how
to do something like that with .arc file? I don't.

   Michal Jaegermann
   Myrias Research Corporation
   Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
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