Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: why zoo...
Message-ID: <2502@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 89 20:07:11 GMT
References: <615670847.12121@myrias.uucp>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <615670847.12121@myrias.uucp> mj@myrias.uucp (Michal Jaegermann) writes:
>In response to Lee Dickey question why zoo is preferable over arc.
...
>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.  ...

Ok!  This posting and the one by Rainer Klute have convinced me.
I would suggest that the moderator (are you there Steven Grimm?)
be empowered and encouraged to accept postings that have been
compressed with ZOO, and that he may send these on to the news
groups "comp.binaries.atari.st" and "comp.sources.atari.st".

It would be wrong for us to dictate to Steven just which compressor
he *must* use.  I think that choice should belong to the moderator.
I believe for instance, that there are instances when ARC comes up
with better compression than ZOO and this could be an important
consideration.

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