Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!phred!craiga From: craiga@phred.UUCP (Craig Arno) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ARC/ZOO/ZIP for comp.binaries.ibm.pc Summary: Test ZOO files before downloading Message-ID: <2502@phred.UUCP> Date: 2 Mar 89 22:14:10 GMT References: <1325@csm9a.UUCP> <91896@sun.uucp> Organization: Physio Control Corp., Seattle WA Lines: 35 In article <91896@sun.uucp>, mms@sordid.Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein) writes: > In article <1175@ns.UUCP> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes: > *> > *> Joe Applegate writes: > *> > *> ... I regularly use the unix version of arc to test > *> the integrity of an archive before transmitting it to my dos system. I > *> ... > > 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. > I've been looking at Zoo since the sources to 2.01 were released in comp.sources... (where are the files for compiling under MSC 5.1? I found a version 2.00 executable for DOS). I just recently started using Zoo and have learned enough to be say that Zoo can "test" a zoo archive with the command: zoo -test zoofile There are several "Novice" functions such as test that are very useful to a beginning user. The documentation states that "test" does a normal extract without saving the file but does report the results. I haven't found anything about Zoo that makes me feel that any functionality was left out. I use Zoo on our Ultrix and my PC systems, just wish I had an excutable for our VMS system with instructions on how to install it there. The last test will be to try installing Zoo on a Xenix system since that is an environment that the ARC source I have doesn't work under. Zoo is winning favor with me with each use.