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From: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee
Message-ID: <3841@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 18:34:05 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: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Organization: Bob-ist Temple of Monterey
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In article <47722@rebel.UUCP> george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) writes:
>[ZOO is] well thought out, fast, good compression, many useful
>features.

ZOO is also very easy to port to new systems.  The system-specific
stuff is well isolated in a couple of files.  Machine differences like
byte order and integer size are all handled properly.  This is very
important if you have to move data between many different operating
systems and processors.
-- 
Mark Alexander	(UUCP: amdahl!drivax!alexande)
"Bob-ism: the Faith that changes to meet YOUR needs." --Bob (as heard on PHC)