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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Archiving programs
Message-ID: <12417@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 89 00:17:27 GMT
Sender: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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There has been a lot of discussion about new archiving programs for the
Amiga.  I believe this is one area, though, that standards should
dominate performance.  Zoo is the most popular archiving program used
on the Amiga, and most people have it and know how to use it.  Using
another archiver on programs you intend to distribute just reduces the
number of people who can use your code.

For all of its problems, zoo has the following advantages:
   - Works on a variety of machines, including Unix
   - Compresses reasonably well
   - Most BBSs and BIX can verify/list a zoo file
   - Widely used, so that almost everyone already has it

So, use what you want to on your own machine, but when you send someone
a file, or make it publically available, keep this in mind.

-tom