Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!claris!sts!roy
From: roy@sts.sts.com
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Message-ID: <77800005@sts>
Date: 22 Feb 89 23:01:00 GMT
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Nf-From: sts.sts.com!roy    Feb 22 15:01:00 1989


How many people would like to see the archive format in
comp.binaries.ibm.pc changed from arc to zoo?  The advantage to this
is now zoo is widely available on Unix systems (just posted on
comp.sources.unix) and you can now un-arc (un-zoo?)  the "binaries" on
your host machine, look at the documentation and see if this thing
that was posted is really worth downloading to the PC.  Also, if
you're sick of the PK/SEA controversy and the whole copyright mess,
this will avoid THAT "noid" (not you Ken, wherever you are!)  I really
don't see any disadvantages, since zoo is also widely available for
the PC.

So, what do you think?  If there are enough "yes" votes, Rahul says he'd
be willing to switch.



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