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From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: zip vs. other archivers
Message-ID: <PORTUESI.89Oct11142007@tweezers.esd.sgi.com>
Date: 11 Oct 89 13:20:07 GMT
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Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
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I just wanted to ask one simple question:

	what features does this new Zip archiver offer over existing
	archivers such as Zoo that justfy its existence?

I recently found an un-Zip utility on a local bbs, which is sufficient
for my needs.  I only need one program to undo every packing utility
in existence.  I use Zoo for anything I package to distribute.

It seems the Amiga world is inundated with the various archiving and
compression schemes from both the Unix and MS-DOS worlds (shar,
uuencode, tar, arc, zoo, and zip) plus Amiga-specific archivers such
as warp and pak.  Do we really need this many archive formats?

			--M
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