Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A moderator for Binaries
Message-ID: <10103@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 25 Mar 88 15:45:42 GMT
References: <23699@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: A vote for Rahul--win one for Dhesi

In article <23699@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
| [...]
| I vote against his ZOO as the archiving program for two reasons,however.  

pkarc runs *only* on DOS. Phil has mentioned a UNIX version, but as yet
it hasn't seen the light of day. zoo runs on DOS, UNIX, VMS, Amiga,
VM/CMS, etc. Is is useful to more people on more systems.

Actually I will be happy if we just stop using PKARC format. Either arc
or zoo are probably acceptable formats. The other advantage of zoo is
that it's 4-10 times faster than arc, has comments on the files and on
the archive, and has a listing option which produces records suitable
for database use (if you have a lot of files as I do).
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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