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From: george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Message-ID: <60615@rebel.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 17:28:55 GMT
References: <77800005@sts> <2914@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe)
Organization: Tolerant Systems, Atlanta GA
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In article <2914@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> pfeifer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Mark C Pfeifer) writes:
>In article <77800005@sts> roy@sts.sts.com writes:
>>How many people would like to see the archive format in
>>comp.binaries.ibm.pc changed from arc to zoo?  
>[stuff deleted]
>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.

I vote for Zoo.  I have zoo now, on all the machines I use.  Works great.

ZIP (Katz's new archiver) looks nice too, but I don't believe it will keep
Unix attributes like zoo.  Besides that, only the format has been documented.
That's nice, but a very, very long way from having a fully functional and
portable program developed to manipulate zip archives under Unix.

We have zoo now.  I can't think of a single reason not to standardize on
it.

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