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From: driscoll@eecae.UUCP (Mike Driscoll)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: ZOO (Is now the time?)
Keywords: archive, ZOO
Message-ID: <10635@eecae.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 02:03:19 GMT
Reply-To: driscoll@eecae.UUCP (Mike Driscoll)
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	I know that this has been discussed before, but with all the
litigation between Phil Katz and SEA now completed, maybe now's the
time.

	Can we decide (in some manner) to switch from using ARC and
whatever Phil Katz will call his code to using ZOO for
comp.binaries.ibm.pc?  Maybe my memory is a little unclear, but I recall
voting for a moderator, but not for an archive format.  The binaries and
source for MS-DOS and UNIX ZOO could both be distributed in the 
binaries group and everybody should be able to make use of them.  The
only problem I see in the switch is it being interpreted as lack of 
support for Phil Katz or for SEA.  I have my own opinion on that, but
I'd just like to use something that does the job, is readily 
accesible, and is free.

 	Rahul perhaps has some conflict of interest here, but maybe he
can comment on a good procedure for deciding this.  

	Again, I'm not trying to start a war about who should have won
the lawsuit, or anything like that.  It has always seemed to me that
ZOO was a good choice for the binaries newsgroup.  (I get sick of
running TAR and ARC/PKARC to capture directory structures, for
example.)  Maybe the confusion over the law suit (or the clarity
resulting from the law suit) makes this a good time to switch.


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