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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: To ZIP to not to ZIP
Keywords: ZIP ZOO
Message-ID: <2767@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 90 03:37:01 GMT
References: <1990Dec28.151755.10172@cbnewsd.att.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Dec28.151755.10172@cbnewsd.att.com> alt@cbnewsd.att.com (art.l.todesco) writes:
| I vote for ZIP.  Its time has come.

  We've been through this before. The voters all agreed that a protocol
needs to be portable (DOS, UNIX, and VMS minimum) and free (rather than
shareware) for this group. So far I see zoo and lharc, with a useful
UNIX zip a long time away.

  The UNIX zipper is not at a state to use for production yet, for speed
or reliability. lharc runs on DOS and UNIX and could be ported to other
systems. The new zoo, which should be better compression than zip is
coming along nicely as far as I'm told.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me