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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Summary: Some things to keep in mind
Message-ID: <5957@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 04:39:25 GMT
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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I ask you all to note a few things.

Roy Bixler asked me if I might want to switch to using zoo format for
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  I told him that I would if that's the way users
wanted to go, and suggested that he ask.  I will happily go with
whatever the consensus is.

Please don't send me any votes by email, and please don't post any
votes.

I am not collecting votes on this issue, because I am probably biased.
If any voting is done it should be (a) organized by one or more
relatively impartial people, and (b) done solely via private email.

So, I request all users to avoid casting votes by posting articles.
Please post an article on this issue only if you have some important
points to make, either pro or con.

So *if* the comp.{sys,binaries}.ibm.pc community holds an impartial
vote, and *if* there is a 2:1 vote in favor of zoo, I will change to
zoo format, and also drop my zoo distribution restrictions as I
described earlier.

P.S.  My own selfish point of view is that using zoo format would be
much better for me.  It's not just because I wrote it.  I can do a lot
more with zoo archives, on our 4.3BSD system here, including commands
like:

     for f in `zoo lfq xyz`; do; zoo xpq xyz $f | cmp - $f; done

which compares each archived file in xyz.zoo with its disk copy and
reports if they are different.  I can search a bunch of zoo archives
for a file with a simple UNIX command like "zoo L *.zoo | grep name".
Among the tools I use for moderation arc is the bottleneck because of
its slow speed and lack of flexibility.  The easier life is for me the
better a job of moderation I can do.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
                    ARPA:  dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu