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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus})
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: .zoo?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 02:23:18 GMT
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In article <151@curano.imp.com> rudolf@curano.imp.com (Rudolf Kuenzli) writes:
>I just uudecoded some binary files from comp.binaries.ibm.pc. It
>resulted in a file named xyz.zoo! With what I will have to unzoo it?

How about reading the files posted regularly by Bill on comp.binaries.ibm.pc??

*From the post with subject: Starter Kit, v1.5

                         UseNet CBIP Starter's Kit

   This kit contains what you will need to begin downloading files from
comp.binaries.ibm.pc. This kit contains:

                1) Instructions
                2) BASIC source to create UUDECODE.COM
                3) DEBUG script to create UUDECODE.COM
                4) C source for UUDECODE
                5) LOOZ 2.12, ZOO extractor, in uuencoded form

You will need:

                1) GW-BASIC or DEBUG (from MS-DOS)
                2) File editor


*And from the post with subject: About archives and archivers

                           ZOO FILES

ZOO.EXE is an archiving program that is similar to PKPAK, but
non-compatible.  ZOO can produce archives with long pathnames in them
(directory names as well as the file name) and it can store comments
about each file.  If you want to take apart a ZOO archive, you will
need a copy of ZOO.EXE.  Since it is a program in development, it's
hard to say what its file name will be when you read this, but
searching for ZOO*.* should turn up the correct file.  When this
article was written the current version of ZOO was ZOO201.EXE, which
may be found in the PD1:<MSDOS.ZOO> directory.  The zoo syntax for
file extraction is:
                    "A>zoo e file"
You do not need to supply the ZOO file type when specifying "file."

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