Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!csustan!polyslo!mdella
From: mdella@polyslo.UUCP (Marcos R. Della)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A moderator for Binaries
Message-ID: <1685@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 18:50:25 GMT
References: <23699@clyde.ATT.COM> <1805@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos Della)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
Lines: 49
Summary: Zoo and its availability here...

In article <1805@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
>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.  
>>
>>1) The SEA and PK versions of ARC are used by nearly every BBS and 
>>most other nets in the country. 2) I, as many others, have dozens of 
>>floppies devoted to archives using SEA and PK ARC.
>
>Frankly, I don't see how this bears on the issue at hand: the choosing of an
>archiver to be used as a standard in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  The fact is that
>the great majority of people read news on machines for which zoo would be
>vastly superior to any form of arc.  We are not talking about forming a
>standard for BBS's (whom we don't care about anyway), we are talking about
>forming a standard for *this* newsgroup.
>

Well, I just got through posting a rather large program on the net a few weeks
ago and did not have anything even remotely similiar to zoo available, nor do
I have the resources on this machine to put together a copy. My account (as
well as every other student) is limited to 500k online at any one time. The
system that I base myself out of (caus-dp) I have 3 gigibytes of storage,
but don't have the msdos intereface.

The reason for using pkarc (probably goes for most of the people out there)
is because its on the IBM (I don't have zoo nor have heard of anyone that
does yet although pkarc and arc are WIDE spread) and its easier to put the
files together on the PC than on the unix machine, especially when you only
have 500k to play with at a time and MOST of it is taken up with school
projects.

I've tried transporting it to my machine at work (I'm the sysadmin for allanon,
caus-dp, caus-pc, and shannara) but the time and effort involved are too
much when there is an easier way of sending it over the net in the pk-form.
I will admit that I should have turned off squashing, but I didn't think of
that...

ANYWAY... In summary, very few people that I have talked to have a copy
of zoo on their machines nor do they have the sysadmins ear to get them to
put something together for them... Its not like people aren't trying, its
just that other people's schedules are so packed that something like that is
low on the priorities...

Marcos Della

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