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: <10683@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 2 May 88 21:18:01 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <2898@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: Zoo Arc

In article <2898@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Craig Browning) writes:

| 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

  Please read my other posting. A lot of sites can't unpack PKARC and
don't want to move large file to a PC until they have read the docs.
Ego, a format which UNIX and DOS share, such as arc and zoo.

  I know zoo runs on VMS, how about arc? I heard that there was an
unpack only version, but it didn't work here.
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