Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!lethe!berner!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!udccvax1!brunke From: brunke@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Jim Brunke) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Zoo yes Message-ID: <2917@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 24 Feb 89 03:38:33 GMT Article-I.D.: udccvax1.2917 References: <11771@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: brunke@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Jim Brunke) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 29 In article <11771@watdragon.waterloo.edu> hpchang@tiger.waterloo.edu (I'm a Wild One) writes: >In article lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) writes: >>Since no one seems to prefer compress and tar for archive >>transmission to/from PC's, Here is another vote for zoo. >>Arc/PK{ARC?ZIP} is brain dead, incompatible with Unix/Vms ... etc. >>Frank Kolakowski > >As a fellow U of W student - I can say that we ARE using ARC on unix systems and >I haven't had a problem yet with any of the arc files I received from the net ... >including moria - just recently posted. I will have to agree, I have never gotten a garbeled binary here, and I am running the Unix version of ARC (that is compatible w/ PK) I can't wait to get my hands on ZIP! Is it available on Simtel yet? Why exactly (list reasons) why we should change the standard... Thanks -- Jim Brunke Computer and Information Science University of Delaware brunke@vax1.acs.udel.edu