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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo
Keywords: zoo
Message-ID: <1294@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 05:24:12 GMT
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Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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In article <12059@watdragon.waterloo.edu> hpchang@tiger.waterloo.edu (I'm a Wild One) writes:
<In article <854@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
<>In article <6584@saturn.ucsc.edu> banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Wailin Through The Nets) writes:
<>|In article <13432@ncoast.ORG> dale@ncoast.ORG (Dale Smith) writes:
<>|>I vote for zoo.  Subdirectories are wonderfull!
<>|>
<>|	Pkzip does subdirectories.
<>
<>Not on Unix.  Not on the Amiga.  When it does that, it may be
<        ^^^^              ^^^^^
<
<Pretty amazing since pkZIP hasn't been released for either the Amiga or Unix
<systems yet.  For something to work on a operating system before it has even
<been written is VERY impressive.  ZIP's got my vote.

PKZIP isn't in the running. The *only* alternatives are to keep using
the old version of ARC that Rahul has on his *nix box, or switch to
zoo. No others need apply.

There are several reasons for this.
1. the program *must* be avaible on *nix or Rahul can't moderate
   effectively. This also makes it easier for the folks who have to
   "massage" the files before downloading them from their news account
   to their PC.

2. It would help if it is available for a wide variety of systems, as
   not all sites are running *nix. Source is a plus here. This means it
   can be ported easily. (this follows from ther second part of #1)

3. The software must be available *now*. This lets out PKZIP as it
   does not at present meet #1. 

4. The change must make things *easier*. If we don't gain anything, why
   change. 

By the way, your vote was wasted... votes must be *mailed*, not 
posted!!!

I'll be voting for zoo as soon as I can convince our mailer to send
the vote (I hate being stuck with bang paths!).

If I need to archive files I use zoo. Because I need to get files from
various bbs systems I have to keep copies of other software around. My
latest count of formats is 5 that I've run across *not* counting zoo. 
I going to just stick them all on a floppy to save space. Or maybe I'll
zoo them and use "looz xx <filename> <archive>" to run them...
-- 
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