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From: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
Message-ID: <4427@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 May 88 15:42:56 GMT
References: <8805130331.AA29993@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <698@applix.UUCP>
Reply-To: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <698@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
>In article <8805130331.AA29993@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>	... When the distribution requires a 
>>	directory structure to be maintained, or has lots of files with
>>	long filenames, ZOO should be used...  Look at the ARP distribution?
>
>I have no problem with this except:
>
>  Is there a version of ZOO for unix?

ZOO was originally written for unix. If you have the amiga distribution
of zoo then you presumably have the docs and somewhere in there it indicates
this fact.

ZOO for unix was recently (18 Aug 87) reposted to comp.sources.unix by its
author iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rahul Dhesi)

and if your site doesn't archive comp.sources.unix a site near you probably
does.

As you can probably tell, I vote for using zoo when pathnames/directory
structures need to be preserved.

	fred