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From: fritz@friday.UUCP (Fritz Whittington)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Message-ID: <684@friday.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 18:40:21 GMT
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Reply-To: fritz@friday.UUCP (Fritz Whittington)
Organization: Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas
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-In article <675@pte.UUCP> car@pte.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
->In article <17652@genrad.UUCP>, jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson) writes:
->> In article <13229@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
->> >I'm in favor of switching now. arc is not available on UNIX machines,
->I got the source for ARC 5.21 for my System V Release 2 system.
->It wouldn't compile - after a bit of hacking I gave up on it.
->More often than not, the ARC's I get from the net don't work with the version
->of ARC.EXE I have for MSDOS - that's a pain. Maybe I have an older ARC.EXE -
->who knows?
->ZOO, on the other hand, WORKS GREAT on my System V. And, I didn't have to do
->any major back flips to get it working.
->> What MORE do you want?
->Something that works well in BOTH environments.
->Christopher A. Rende           Multics,DTSS,Unix,Shortwave,Scanners,StarTrek
The important thing to remember in voting for or against this change is
(IMHO) to end up with something that works well in both (really, all)
environments.  Zoo seems to meet these requirements best at the moment. 
Nothing prevents you from un-Zooing (oozing?) on your MS-DOS machine and
re-packing the stuff in whatever your favorite, personal-standard MS-DOS
archiver happens to be, costing you only a piece of re-usable temporary
file space.  I find that I have to keep some version of A*C, Zoo, and
PKZIP all on my MS-DOS machine at the moment anyway.  Zoo is the only
one that also works just as well on my UNIX machine.  Seems like win-win
to me.
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