Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!w8sdz From: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: ARC/ZOO/ZIP for comp.binaries.ibm.pc Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 89 20:23:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Lines: 19 Now is not a good time to switch from ARC to ZOO. Many BBSs around the country are switching their entire on-line file archives to ZIP archives. Reports I have seen indicate a savings of FIVE MEGABYTES on a typical 40 mb hard disk BBS. Anything we can do to lessen the network load is worthwhile. It's just a matter of time before someone writes a ZIP archiver for Unix. Ralf Brown, in his new Interrupt List just uploaded to Simtel20 says: "I intend to release future versions compressed with PKZIP (except the copy on SIMTEL20 until a version of PKZIP is available for it), as testing shows that the current list compresses to ~136k with PKZIP, versus ~181k for ZOO or PKARC and ~195k for PKARC -oct." --Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74] DDN: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz