Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: zip vs. other archivers Message-ID: <9632.AA9632@heimat> Date: 14 Oct 89 01:07:58 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Sneakers Computing Lines: 30 In Message , portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com writes: >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? The SYSOP's on Berks Amiga BBS were just having this discussion a few weeks back. It seems no real answer (IE: yes or no) was reached and it was decided to support all. Reason for supporting all was that it seems each has their strong point (IE: warp does entire disks, on some files a ZOO archive is smaller than ARC, ect, ect). So until one (or two) archives appear as the winner (via public choice) we have decided to just allow em all.... But I have to say my personal feelings are that we have more than we need. I use "ZOO" simply because I have it for AmigaDOS, MS-DOS, and Unix - and since thats the places I spend my time ZOO works for me. (Besides I like its ability to handle long filenames and multiple periods - unlike ARC) All the files upload by the SYSOP's on Berks Amiga are in Zoo format. Sneakers -- ___ Dan "Sneakers" Schein //// BERKS AMIGA BBS Sneakers Computing //// 80+ Megs of software & messages 2455 McKinley Ave. ___ //// 12/2400 Baud - 24 Hrs West Lawn, PA 19609 \\\\ //// 215/678-7691 \\\\//// {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers