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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: zip vs. other archivers
Summary: I like zoo.
Keywords: archivers stuffit zoo arc pak
Message-ID: <1198@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 12:36:12 GMT
References: <1669@nigel.udel.EDU> <284@tcville.HAC.COM>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
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In article <284@tcville.HAC.COM> allen@tcville.hac.com (Allen Farrington)
writes:
>Ya know, the primary Mac archiver, Stuffit (now a commercial
>product), is a really slick program.  You just dclick on the
>archive's icon and you're presented with a listing of the
>available files.  Select the ones you want and it'll undo
>them in a jiffy.
>
>I don't see why some industrious person couldn't take the zoo
>source (it's PD isn't it?) and add a slick user interface
>to it.  Any takers?

That's a good idea. As long as it remains compatible with standard zoo files.
What I like about zoo is that I can take a zoo file and move it to any other
machine I have handy and manipulate the file. MSDOS, Unix and my Amiga. 

I have seen a similar product for MSDOS called NARC (for uN-ARC) that will give
you a listing of ARC files in a certain directory, let you pick one using a
highlight bar and the arrow keys, and then list all the files in that .ARC 
You then use the arrow keys and can select any or all of the files in the .ARC
and unpack them. It asks what directory you want to place them in and away it
goes. pretty nice. 

Since you came up with the idea,.... let us know when it's finished ;-)
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