Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ARC/ZOO/ZIP for comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Message-ID: <18128@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 89 02:04:56 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Organization: malkaryotic
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mms@sun.UUCP (Michael Silverstein) <91896@sun.uucp> :
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-I do exactly the same. I assume, from what I've seen in prior discussions,
-that Rahul is offering to make available Unix compileable source so that
-we will have the same (or better) capabilities. Some one please correct me
-if I'm wrong.

This sounds like you think Unix source isn't available.  In fact it has
gone out recently on comp.sources.misc (I think that was the group), along
with the MSDOS adaptations.  It is in the simtel20 archives, in the Unix
area, and I presume it is in other archives as well.

I've compiled it on Ultrix/VAXen, and I believe it'll go on Suns, etc.
without undue trouble (I'll find out some day).  I can't help but think of
zoo as a unix tool that was written with portability in mind -- it feels
unixish.  (In contrast: try starting multiple ARC processes in the
background; when I tried it they walked all over each other's temporary
files, because the code didn't try to generate unique tempnames.  Oof.)
(If you DO try this, make sure you use junk .arc files!)

The limitations on the program's availability revolve around profit-making
networks (and Rahul's offered to relax them substantially); I personally
doubt whether many of Compu$erve's customers call in from Unix boxes.

[sorry; this seems far from "ibm pc binaries".  But they don't exist in a
vacuum, and compatibility is increasingly important to me...]