Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!irie.ais.org!mjo
From: mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why use zoo?
Message-ID: <1991May21.055203.23972@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 05:52:03 GMT
References: <14059121:55:36HL00@lehigh.bitnet>
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@ais.org>
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Society
Lines: 16

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?

Basically because ZOO is superior to ARC in file handling and
compression and works on a variety of platforms (various PCs, Unix
VMS) without a lot of hassle.






====
Mike O'Connor (mjo@ais.org)