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From: young@cxsea.UUCP (Gary Young)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Message-ID: <2618@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 19:53:29 GMT
References: <77800005@sts>
Reply-To: young@cxsea.UUCP (Gary Young)
Organization: Computer X Inc.
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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? ...
>
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Does ZOO support subdirectories in the archive format?
The problems that I encounter in handling network files involve:
  (1) files in subdirectories, or which should be in subdirectories,
  (2) files that contain two or more periods in their name (but not
      usually from this news group), and
  (3) archives that are over 360K.
The collecting of net files is too labor intensive.  A good archiver
should run semi-automatically for all possible cases, as well as
doing a good job of compression.  It should combine the best features
of arc, tar, cpio, compress, and split/cat; and be automatic.

I have not paid much attention to the general discussion on the net
about archive formats, but would like these problems considered in
your decission.


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