Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Down Memory Lane For Mi Amy
Message-ID: <4616@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 20:18:55 GMT
References: <2955@gryphon.CTS.COM> <8633@g.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <8633@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
]
][regarding hard drive problems that probably originate with ARC]
]
]I have since started using "zoo", which has a higher compression ratio,
]supports long filenames, can archive directory trees, and supports better
]archive manipulation.  If zoo runs out of memory, it simply complains and
]exits, and it will let you interrupt it at any time with a ^C.

Zoo can also be made resident in shared mode, by REZ. You can run multiple
copies at once, with memory overhead of 30K (executable) + 30K workspace
per copy instead of a flat 60K per copy. I can see some major advantages there!
Arc can't; although you can make it resident, if you try to run a second one
it will be loaded from disk.

John
(are there any guidelines for moving discussions back to comp.sys.amiga if
 they become less technical?)