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From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Summary: It compiled on a VAX 785 Ultrix 2.0
Message-ID: <879@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 89 16:16:07 GMT
References: <77800005@sts>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <77800005@sts>, roy@sts.sts.com writes:
> How many people would like to see the archive format in
> comp.binaries.ibm.pc changed from arc to zoo?  The advantage to this
> is now zoo is widely available on Unix systems (just posted on
> comp.sources.unix) and you can now un-arc (un-zoo?)  the "binaries" on
> your host machine, look at the documentation and see if this thing
> that was posted is really worth downloading to the PC.  Also, if

I grabbed Zoo for both Unix and my PC and they work just great.  All
the flags are a bit intimidating for generic PC users but you get the
hang of it really easy.  I have just been converting most of my files
up on the mainframe to zoo format and it saves a lot of space.  On the
PC sometimes the savings doesn't happen, but in that case I just keep
it as an "ARC" (trademark somebody or other!) file.  On a 40Mb hard
disk with about 85% usage I was able to get zoo to release about 1Mb of
space for the files that I keep zoo'd.  Hey 1Mb is 1Mb!  I need all the
space I can get, donations kindly accepted :-) sort of.

Kevin
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Kevin "Auric" Crocker @Athabasca University {alberta ncc}auvax!kevinc