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From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: ARC vs ZOO (Re: Standard format for ARCed files)
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Date: 22 Mar 88 17:28:36 GMT
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Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
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In <278@syntron.UUCP> gerry@syntron.UUCP (G. Roderick Singleton) writes:
>To get back on track, SEA released sources to the net sometime ago
>which has allowed most UNIX machines to read, create and extract files
>from compatible archives, I know, I know, the compression isn't the
>greatest BUT at least, I can handle archives on my BSD and Venix boxes by
>using it.  Unfortunately, the author(s) of pkarc have not followed suit
>so no pkarc on UNIX machines and I don't see anyone using ZOO.

I put the sources to both arc and zoo on my SCO XENIX 286 system.  I
compiled both with maximum speed optimization and 286 code generation.
I tested the resulting binaries on archiving the kermit 2.30
distribution (sources, docs and all).

Zoo accomplished the task in 1/3 the time and the resulting file was 1%
smaller than when I put arc to the task.  I keep arc around to extract
stuff from the net, but I only use zoo for creating and maintaining
archives.

Of course, I have BETA instead of VHS due to BETA's technical
superiority.  This isn't worth much when *nobody* rents BETA tapes.
This seems to be yet another of those situations.  I have about as much
chance of getting everyone to use zoo as I have of getting you all to
buy BETA.	:-(

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