Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!coplex!chuck From: chuck@coplex.UUCP (Chuck Sites) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Don't change formats before the archive sites (Was Re: Zoo yes) Message-ID: <559@coplex.UUCP> Date: 2 Mar 89 15:14:23 GMT References: <11771@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <2917@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1529@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Reply-To: chuck@coplex.UUCP (Chuck Sites) Distribution: comp Organization: Copper Electronics Inc. Louisville, KY Lines: 28 ZOO YES!!!! Go ZOO, Go ZOO, Go ZOO, Goooooo ZOO!!! This is about the 20th time I've seen the Zoo vs. Arc vs. All comers debate. My vote is ZOO. Arc has so many versions and variations that it's confusing. It seems that everyone that had thier hand in Arc did something to the arc's file format! The result is I when I download an .arc file, it usually: 1. Does not un-arc on unix systems, because it was arc'ed with PK-arc or some other unknown archiver with the file extension .arc 2. It doesn't un-arc on DOS because it was arc'ed with Sea version. 3. It doesn't un-arc because it was arc'ed with a newer version. I mean real folks, we've got squshed, squished, compressed, munged and mangled files being transmitted under the name ARC. ARC is brain dead, Arc is copyrighted, and Arc should be trashed. ZOO is simply the better program of the bunch. Compared to the arc programs I've seen, ZOO, function-wise, code-wise, protability-wise, beats Arc hands down. Rahul Dhesi did a super job, and my hats off to him. Now folks, when are we going to stop the arguing, and switch?