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From: browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
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Date: 1 May 88 17:42:53 GMT
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In article <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> opergb@uvm-gen.UUCP (Gary Bushey) writes:
>A run a small PD Software library and am rebuilding it using compressed an/or
>crunched format.  I was wondering if I should use Zoo or Arc and which version
>to accomplish this.  Which one is going to become the one used in 
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc?
>
>Any discussion, complaints, flames?
>
>Gary Bushey

ARC format. This is my vote, offered now that we have a discussion group;
I feel that arc is much more the standard. The only reason given previously
for not using PKARC including squashing was that Phil Katz wouldn't release
the format of it, but a message from him posted did give it. It is fast,
and compresses nicely; the 'Benchmarks' posted recently confirmed that PKARC
was fastest and close to most effecient, after compress which usually was
smallest, as you'd expect with 16-bit LZW. We no-moderator fans apparently have
to have a moderator for the binaries group (I don't see why now with the
discussion group) but I think not using arc format for the files would be
a major inconvenience. We should use the non-squashing format perhaps
because not everyone has PKARC, but since the PKARC binaries are supposed to
be posted regularly, maybe even straight PKARC is OK. BBS's seem to have
adapted uniuversally to the arc format, with or without squashing. Since
this is an IBM group that seems pertinent. We've been using arc, why change?

P.S. On Pibterm 4.1.3 (?), a list of recent changes would be nice to help
people decide whether they want to get a new version. I do encourage people
to try in a widely-distributed message to try to include all pertinent info;
there's too much noise in questions otherwise.

If anyone has nice VGA programs, please post them. I'll post a nice
windows program called globe, which is nice, it shows a picture of
the globe spinning, and you can locate cities etc. It's fun.

Craig