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From: darrylo@hpsrli.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Short History of Arching on Micros
Message-ID: <340019@hpsrli.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 88 16:28:13 GMT
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc, paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) writes:

> A Short History of Compression and Archive-files on Microcomputers
     [ ... ]
> Some BBS operators said that ARC had served well, was an established
> standard, and they would continue to support it.  Other BBS operators,
> tired of lawyers and the entire shareware and commercial jungle, began
> to endorse Zoo, as the only truly public format and program.

     Just to clarify things, ZOO IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN.  It comes with
some crippling (in my opinion) licensing restrictions, which almost
insures that it will not become widely used.  Don't get me wrong -- I
like zoo and will probably use it for my own personal purposes, but I
really think that the licensing agreement is a bit silly.

     [ ... ]
> Paul Homchick              UUCP:  {allegra | rutgers | uunet} !cbmvax!cgh!paul
> Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc.; One Radnor Station, Suite 300; Radnor, PA 19087

     -- Darryl Okahata
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Disclaimer: the above is the author's personal opinion and is not the
opinion or policy of his employer or of the little green men that
have been following him all day.