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From: LAUL@UREGINA1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARC vs ZOO
Message-ID: <8712250010.AA22861@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 87 06:39:06 GMT
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Ever since I bought a modem, my use of Amy has gone up about 4x what
it was.  I have become somewhat of a BBS geek, and I estimate my A1000
spends 80% of its time uploading/downloading , as well as
compressing/decompressing files.  There is 1 thing I like about Zoo, I
don't have to worry about the file name lenghts.  However, very few BBS
users use Zoo, and it would NOT be easy to get them to change.

The other, and most important factor, is that Zoo will not decompress
any /.ARC/ files that I have.  Meanwhile, ARC will decompress MOST Zoo
files, that I have tried (well, it does miss a few blocks).  So, there
no question of which one I keep in my crowded c-directory of my WB floppy.

Dennis Robert Gorrie.
"""Break a Deal, Spin the Wheel... """