Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: Compression SuffixeDIR/ALLs Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 14:14:05 GMT References: <1991Mar1.022038.39529@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1822@pdxgate.UUCP> Lines: 18 >In article <1822@pdxgate.UUCP> algoa@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Gregory Bowers) writes: [...] >.zoo - Zoo v2.01 (I think), Booz (Zoo extractor), file compressor. > >I would recommend using LHArc/LZ or PKAZip for files and DMS or Zoom for disks. Zoo is the compressor/decompressor. This is an excellent archiver, and I think vastly underrated in the Amiga community. It is widely available on many different machine types, and the files are compatible with each other across all machines, unlike lharc. The command line interface on zoo is also better than that of lharc. It doesn't compress as much as lharc does, but a new version is said to have a higher compression ratio. Since I work with five different operating systems, all of which have at least a Zoo extractor available, zoo is a big win. -- ben@epmooch.UUCP ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu {chinet,uokmax}!servalan!epmooch!ben (Ben Mesander)