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From: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: sending source code
Message-ID: <820@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 14:16:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 14:16:13 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 23:15:44 EST
References: <631@louie.udel.EDU> <332@uvicctr.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman
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In article <332@uvicctr.UUCP> sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner) writes:
>I must agree with what you are saying, but might I suggest that instead
>of using tar/compress/arc combinations, that we adopt the 'zoo' program
>that was distributed on the net a few months ago.  It gives the utility
>of tar (ie, archiving directory structures, etc), with the data
....
>ALL HAVE THE SAME INTERFACE.  I think that if we have to set some sort
>of a standard for this (and I think that we will have do deal with this
>problem sooner or later), the combination of zoo, and uuencode is
>probably the way to go.
  I agree with you about the usefulness of Zoo.  I use it all the time to
transport files from this machine, an Encore Multimax, to my PC.  The source
for Zoo compiled and ran first time on the Multimax, which is more than I can
say for many other programs from the net. 
  There is, however, a problem with using it on MINIX.  Some time ago I
corresponded with Rahul Dhesi about porting Zoo to MINIX, and he told me
that it won't fit in 64Kcode-64Kdata systems.  Considering that a full 
13-bit LZW compression table takes around 50K, this isn't too surprising.
  So, Zoo won't fit on MINIX.  However, the 'booz' (I believe that's its
name) simplified extract-only program probably will work on MINIX; in fact, it
was designed to be portable to limited-memory systems.  So, though you
won't be able to create Zoo archives on MINIX, it will be possible to
extract them on MINIX.  Ain't great, but better than nothing.
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