Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!rutgers!att!alberta!auvax!kevinc From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ARC/ZOO/ZIP for comp.binaries.ibm.pc Summary: Used 'em all - so what. Message-ID: <883@auvax.UUCP> Date: 6 Mar 89 05:51:28 GMT References: <1325@csm9a.UUCP> <91896@sun.uucp> Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada Lines: 56 In article <91896@sun.uucp>, mms@sordid.Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein) writes: >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. > > | /\/\ike Silverstein | This can't be deja vu. Things are more like | AS far as I can see the source for zoo came across just a little while ago. I grabbed and without any tweaking at all it compiled on the following: VAX 785 Ultrix 2.0 I never bothered to compile on my PC as binaries came across a week earlier. I will probably move the source over to our SYS V in the next few days and compile over there to see if things change. I never really cared very much about how files came over the net i.e SEA ARC or PK ARC until I started to get files that wouldn't unarc with either for some reason. Most of the problems that I had seemed to be connected with PK but this is PROBABLY MY FAULT. Every since the zoo source and binaries came around here I have switched because zoo worked better and stored things better. Now with PK's new ZIP I can't tell. What I probably will do is store things in whatever format saves the most space. I don't really care about how fast these things archive stuff as I usually go and do something else or start them running at night or over lunch. An absolutely essential feature is that whatever we all decide to do it would be nice if we had software than ran on both unix_oids and pc_oids. I like to know what things are before I spend a whole lot of time downloading. As I've said I don't care how long it takes to archive stuff but I do care how long it takes to download. Actually I have found that archiving is reasonably quick and the downloading very slow even at 9600 direct connect to the unix box. The one thing that has really burnt my toast is the crap that occured between SEA and PK. I don't care who did what or why but the whole thing really was tiresome. I'm pissed off at SEA for the lawsuit, I'm pissed off at PK for putting himself in that predicament and to some extent I'm pissed off at RD for the restrictions on zoo. Now that Rahul has indicated that he might be willing to take the restrictions off zoo, zoo seems to be a better choice. When and if PK provides ZIP for unix_oids then I'll revisit the decision. Of course, I'm pretty small potatoes - only about 60Mb of stuff and its all just for my, and a few locals, use. I have consistently ignored all the big stuff that has come across the net because I just have no room, but for the stuff that I do have space is my prime consideration. Wow, rambling city - next thing you know I might even write something inciteful (no pun intended). Kevin -- * Kevin "Auric" Crocker | Keeper of the paperless office * * Athabasca University | If I could get everyone to quit * * alberta!auvax!kevinc | sending me the stuff! *