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From: jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why use zoo?
Message-ID: <8927@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 16:29:41 GMT
References: <14059121:55:36HL00@lehigh.bitnet>
Reply-To: jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <14059121:55:36HL00@lehigh.bitnet> HL00@NS.CC.LEHIGH.EDU (Sheng Lin) writes:
>Well, I'm no expert in archivers, but why are lots of programs still
>compressed with zoo when there are others which can reduced the size of
>the files significantly better than zoo?

Perhaps its because zoo is very portable to other operating systems.  I use
zoo because it allows me to transfer between any Unix system to any DOS
system.  It works very well.

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