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From: larrys@watson.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: v03INFO03: NOTICE-comp.os2.binaries archive format
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.131855.1952@watson.ibm.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:16:14 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.185704.6230@stiatl.salestech.com>
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In <1991Jun18.185704.6230@stiatl.salestech.com>, tok@stiatl.salestech.com (Terry Kane) writes:
>
>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

I'm not sure if PKZIP2 is HPFS aware, but I imagine so.

>        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

IBM has a corporate license for PKZIP2, which is the (quite fast) OS/2
version of the DOS utility.

>        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).

I (and many other IBMers) use OS/2 to read the news, and I strongly
suspect that the number of people who do also will increase in the
future.

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

I say go with .ZIP...

Cheers,
Larry Salomon, Jr. (aka 'Q')            LARRYS@YKTVMV.BITNET
OS/2 Applications and Tools             larrys@ibmman.watson.ibm.com
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center         larrys@eng.clemson.edu
Yorktown Heights, NY

Disclaimer:  The statements and/or opinions stated above are strictly my
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seriously.