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From: valsta@metla.fi
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Subject: Re: Zoo Decoder?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.093440.1@metla.fi>
Date: 17 Jun 91 07:34:40 GMT
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In article <56405@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes:
> In article <2857F408.14594@ics.uci.edu>, jsuker@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Johnathon Laurence Suker) writes...
>>Does anyone out there have a ZOO decoder for the mac?  Or a way to convert
>>ZOO to something I can use like BinHqx???  Or even a PC version that I
>>can use (last resort).
> 
> The ".zoo" format is the archive format used by the usenet 
> comp.binaries.ibm.pc newsgroup.  A simple decoder, "looz212.exe"
> by Rahul Dhesi, is included in uuencoded format in one of the 
> monthly "Starter Kit" postings to c.b.i.p.
> 
> Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that ".zoo" is
> currently an MS-DOS-only phenomenon.


I've used zoo in the UNIX world.

> 
> -- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)

Lauri Valsta
valsta@metla.fi