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From: tok@stiatl.salestech.com (Terry Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: v03INFO03: NOTICE-comp.os2.binaries archive format
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.185704.6230@stiatl.salestech.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 18:57:04 GMT
References: <13160@uwm.edu>
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.
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os2bin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (OS/2 binaries moderator) writes:


>I have received several messages requesting that I change over to the .ZIP 
>format which is a 'standard' in the PC world.  The common argument against 
>this is that Unix does not have a decent version of PKZIP available to the 
>general public, whereas ZOO archivers are very common. 

I assert that zoo should remain the archive of choice, since:

	1:	The ZOO archivers as distributed in this group are HPFS aware,
		allowing long filenames, and

	2:	I am not aware of a PKZIP 1.10 package available for OS/2
		at this time - this leaves us at the 1.02 level going to DOS
		for unpackaging in the FAT fs, and

	3:	I believe that most folks rely on UNIX for their netnews
		connection; where if you want to print documentation from
		a c.b.os2 archive, you would have to punt the archive to
		DOS, extract files, to be returned to UNIX for printing
		(as one unfriendly scenario).

Count my vote for remaining with ZOO!!!!!