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From: pfeifer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Mark C Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Message-ID: <2914@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 89 04:24:34 GMT
References: <77800005@sts>
Reply-To: pfeifer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Mark C Pfeifer)
Organization: University of Delaware
Lines: 24

In article <77800005@sts> roy@sts.sts.com writes:
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>How many people would like to see the archive format in
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc changed from arc to zoo?  

[stuff deleted]

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

Some of the local BBSs are also dropping ARC, but are instead switching
to PKZAP (Phil Katz's new archiver).  The new program claims to compress
better than ARC (or PKPAK), and the documentation seems to allow easy
porting to UN*X.  This could be worth some thought, too.

					Mark


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