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From: skeeve@mhuxu.UUCP (Chris Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
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Date: 27 Feb 89 17:24:18 GMT
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Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
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In article <2184@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie) writes:
|||How many people would like to see the archive format in
|||comp.binaries.ibm.pc changed from arc to zoo? 
|
|I have never seen a ZOO file on a BBS but I have already encountered
|ZIP files.
|
|Seems like ZIP is a better candidate for replacing ARC.
|Especially after the abuse PKWARE suffered from SEA.
|---
|Tom Beattie

I also would rather see ZIP files than ARC or ZOO files.  ARC and ZOO are
about the same in terms of file compression.  ZIP beats both by a fair
margin.  I would like to avoid using any SEA product anyway.

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Chris Riley                         My mind isn't always in the gutter
                                    -- sometimes it comes out to feed.
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