Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!jato!jbrown
From: jbrown@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed ibm-pc binaries?
Message-ID: <905@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 8 Mar 89 10:45:05 GMT
References: <77800004@sts> <77800010@sts>
Reply-To: jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown)
Organization: Me?  Organized?
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In article <77800010@sts> roy@sts.sts.com writes:
>1) zoo doesn't compress as much as the new ZIP or PAK programs.
>The other reason is that no money/donation is being asked for to use
>zoo and the source code is available for anyone to make improvements
>to.  If you think you can make zoo faster or compress better, go ahead ...

Alas, you aren't allowed to.  A better compression scheme would probably
be incompatible (old versions wouldn't be able to decode it) and so would
be disallowed by Rahul's license agreement.