Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdcad!phil
From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 2 May 88 05:50:19 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
Lines: 17
Keywords: Zoo Arc

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?

My understanding is that zoo can handle directories and arc can't.  If
that is true, it would seem zoo is preferable. Some may say arc is
more standard, but since self extracting zoo binaries can be created,
there shouldn't be any one who can't use a zoo posting. 

Plus you can easily get zoo on many other operating systems like Unix.
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