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From: derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why use zoo?
Message-ID: <731@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 23 May 91 12:25:34 GMT
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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?

Because of the things that zoo can do, that the others cann't:

Using looz xx you can run <64K programs without unpacking. I find this 
useful for storing small, infrequently used programs.

Using multiple generations of a file (like VMS)

No packing automatically - so I can compress things on a floppy- only
system to a single disk and nearly fill it.

I also use zoox to do backups (it can split archives over several floppies)

It is the only archiver I have that works on the Sun at work, and my PCs at
home. So I can compress files for transfer.

Well you asked :-) 

Best Regards, Derek Carr
DEREK@DTS.INE.PHILIPS.NL           Philips I&E TQV-5 Eindhoven, The Netherlands 
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