Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <10725@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 5 May 88 14:17:24 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <10681@steinmetz.ge.com> <21414@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: Zoo Arc

In article <21414@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
| In article <10681@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
| .  There are two major reasons why people want to use zoo over arc;
| .(a) features such as comments and subdirectories, and (b) performance,
| .since zoo is 5-8 times faster than arc *in UNIX*. Neither of these are
| .compelling reasons, and I think the choice should be left to the poster
| 
| Subdirectories unimportant? I suggest you've been using PCs too long.

  I'm not sure what brought this on, you've flamed me for something I
didn't say, and then brought up an irrelevant point as conclusion.

  What I said was that the ability to handle subdirectories in an
archiver is not a compelling reason to choose an archiver. After looking
over the stuff I have pulled from the net for programs which use
subdirectories, and have come up with a total of one.

  Count them ONE!! Do it on the wrong finger and it looks like a rude
gesture. I have been a major proponent of zoo, but I see no reason to
disallow arc, since I can handle that on UNIX nicely. For a fraction of
a percent of postings we should cram a new standard down people's
throats?

  Finally, I'm not sure what brought on the nasty comment about using
PCs too long??? I *have* been using PCs since 1976 (or so) when 16k was
a big system. I've also used mainframes since 1966, and UNIX since V6.
Now what has all this got to do with a standard archiver needing to be
able to handle subdirectories?

  If you have a problem with what I say tell me. But don't make up
quotes and then flame them.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me