Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: I dont want to start ARC vs ZOO wars again, but.. Re^2: Please use ZOO!
Summary: It's not *starting*  it's *continuing*
Message-ID: <23052@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 89 19:13:31 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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One more advantage to ZOO, which can be unanswerable to some of us:  It
uses unique temp-file names; ARC has constant, hard-coded temp-file
names.  This means that if you try to run multiple ARC processes
(background in UNIX, DesqView or whatever in MS-DOS), the processes
clobber each other's temp files.  Very possibly you will irreparably
damage every involved archive file (I did).

ZOO generates unique temporary names, so that multiple ZOO processes
coexist happily.  Uncorrupted archives are worth a *lot* to me.