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From: crc6@pyuxe.UUCP (C. Colbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: why zoo...
Summary: Source for Zoo?
Message-ID: <860@pyuxe.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 14:59:03 GMT
References: <615670847.12121@myrias.uucp> <2502@water.waterloo.edu> <114413@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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%In article <114413@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, koreth@panarthea.sun.com (Steven Grimm) writes:
 In article <2502@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
##Ok!  This posting and the one by Rainer Klute have convinced me.
# 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".
# 
# In fact, I have already posted a binary in .zoo format, the German
# Modula-2 compiler in volume 4.  I don't have any strong preference
# for Arc or Zoo (though I think the latter is more convenient in
# most cases).  Whichever method is used by the person who sends the
# program to me will be used when the program is sent out.  In fact,
# I don't repackage anything unless I have to, most commonly to split
# sources from binaries (why don't most people submit them in two
# separate postings?) or to merge in documentation.
# 
# Since both arc and zoo are available to everyone who should be
# concerned about which is used on the net, and both have proven
# fairly reliable, I don't see what the big deal is.  You won't see
# anything on comp.binaries that I wasn't able to unpack, so if zoo
# has a bug you should never see it crop up in binaries articles.
# 
# ---
# This message is a figment of your imagination.  Any opinions are yours.
# Steven Grimm		Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st
# sgrimm%chrome@sun.com	...!sun!chrome!sgrimm


Is there source for ZOO? What language is it in?  Programs without source
aren't portable.

Charles Colbert