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From: maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu (ERIC SCHWERTFEGER)
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Subject: Re: Archivers
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Date: 17 Oct 89 03:26:06 GMT
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>PS: Why don't people use entire-disk archivers when archiving a program
>    that's a full disk, instead of making our life harder with zoo?  -> ;)
>

Several reasons actually.  I know some disk archivers will warn you if
there is a bootblock virus on the disk being warped, but that can be
over-ridden, and I haven't seen a disk archiver than warns the un-archiving
person.

Second, I have a 32 Meg hard disk and 2 Megs of ram.  I do not like being
told that I have to unarchive to a floppy rather than ram or hard disk.

Finally, you can do a lot more with zoo.  you can list the files in the
archive or extract specific files.  All in all, i prefer the versatility
of zoo to a disk archiver.  And yes, when I archive an entire disk, I do
set up the file(s) so that the x// option will put everything back where
it belongs.

Eric Schwertfeger
maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu