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From: iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson)
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Subject: Re: zoo and MSDOS vs. UNIX
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Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 07:32:26 EST
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In article <1181@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>MSDOS delimits lines in files with CR/LF, UNIX with just LF.  [Pack] a bunch
>of files under one OS [with zoo] and un-zoo the archive under the other, and
>you have to edit every file.  Or am I missing something?

No, you're not.  This is one of my two complaints about ZOO.  The other is
that it's pretty slow - not as slow as ARC, but not as fast as PKARC.  Both
ARC and ZOO files require editing when unpacked.  I still use ZOO over ARC
since it supports directories, and is much more portable.


- Tim Iverson
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