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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ARC vs ZOO (Re: Standard format for ARCed files)
Message-ID: <10152@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 29 Mar 88 16:49:13 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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(Steve Harrold) writes:
| [...]
| When zoo makes an archive of ASCII (text) files on, say, unix, and then the
| archive is unzoo'd on an MSDOS machine, are the LF to CRLF translations
| made?  And the ^Z delimiter appended?  And how about the reverse direction?

  Although Rahul has mentioned doing this, at the moment files are not
converted. They are not converted by arc, either. The ^Z is an artifact
of DOS 1.x and is not required by many programs.

  The "todos" "fromdos" programs handle this fairly well on the UNIX
side, and many editors (such as MicroEMACS) will accept a file with just
newlines and write back a file as DOS wants it. I suspect that "todos"
would work if recompiled for DOS, also.

  I like zoo because it allows passing a whold directory structure, has
versions, etc, and runs 6-8 times faster than arc. In terms of just
getting things distributed, I have no problem with using whichever was
submitted, as long as it's not pkarc.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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