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From: w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee
Summary: ZOO may have compatiblity problems
Keywords: arc,pkarc,zoo
Message-ID: <8627@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 21:58:18 GMT
References: <4574232@<KPETERSEN> <16800358@clio> <925@psu-cs.UUCP> <1988Sep13.185106.14193@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <506@mks.UUCP> <439@l5comp.UUCP> <47722@rebel.UUCP>
Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <47722@rebel.UUCP> george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) writes:
>.....  (Note that old versions of ZOO can correctly process
>archives made with newer versions, only processing niceties added by a
>later version are lost when using a back rev.)
>.....
>I've always liked ZOO in theory, but never tried it.  Last week I
>brought it up on two Unix systems and on a few PC's.  Works like a
>charm.  Well thought out, fast, good compression, many useful
>features.

I also brought up ZOO on Unix 4.3 BSD.  Yesterday I attempted to extract
some files from a ZOO file made on MSDOS and ended up with only half of
the files extracted.  During the extraction there were no warning
messages.  I decided to have ZOO test the archive and it said I needed a
newer version in order to fully manipulate the files in this ZOO.  I
finally had to download the files to my PC and use ZOO201 to extract the
files.  There were no subdirectories in the extracted filenames, I
double-checked that by doing ZOO e// and ZOO l// on the archive (I speak
of archive in the generic term here since that's what ZOO's author says
in reference to the files it creates).

-- 
--Keith Petersen
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