Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg
From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Keywords: Zoo Arc
Message-ID: <25745@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 May 88 12:15:45 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:

> My understanding is that zoo can handle directories and arc can't.  If
> that is true, it would seem zoo is preferable. 
> -- 

Will someone please explain why any archiver's ability to
handle directories is important for transmitting binaries
on USENET?

Forrest Gehrke