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From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
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Subject: Re: Major Problems Unpacking 'lzh' Files
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Date: 8 Jan 91 12:26:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jan8.153539.19118@wam.umd.edu>, dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes:
> But the worst peroblem with
> zoo is its brain-damaged syntax w.r.t. subdirectories....
> These days archiving subdirs should be the DEFAULT.

Well, there's always the command line

	zoo -restore archive.zoo

It's worked quite nicely for me.

The other 'flaw' I see with the various LHARC, LZH, UNLZH programs is this:
  
   With the exception of ports like LHARC 0.5beta, et al, almost EVERY
   single archiver/unarchiver using the LHARC protocols is ShareWare.
   This bothers me, seeing that both ARC and ZOO were released as
   free-of-cost software, and the original protocols for LHARC didn't
   cost anything either.  (I'm speaking non-commercially here, I'm well
   aware of SEA's commercial charges for ARC, as an example.)

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David Paschall-Zimbel		davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu