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From: campbell@hpbsla.HP.COM (gary campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Message-ID: <2530001@hpbsla.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 89 17:49:02 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Boise R & D Lab
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>Let me also ask whether work is going on to adapt zoo to be the friendly
>multi-floppy compressing backup/restore program the world needs?

I would like to use one primary archiver.  I would like the ability to
do compressed backups of my system.  That means that I want to see an
archiver with the ability to store subdirectories and to do multi-floppy
archives.  Until now, Zoo seems to come closest to this.  This morning
is the first I've heard that PKWare's new program is available, so I
don't know anything about it, but I remember reading somewhere that it
would support multi-floppy archives.  Could an option be added to Zoo to
allow either the ability to switch to a new floppy when the current one
is full, or to allow specification of a maximum archive size and to
continue on making a new archive file?  The latter approach would allow
easy generation of archives on UNIX which could be sized for transfer to
floppies.  With this change, I think that Zoo would meet my backup and
archiving needs.

I agree that a freeware archiver makes sense for a free distribution
group.  I appreciate Rahul's efforts not to force the decision in favor
of his program.  I also think that since he has to do a lot of work to
provide this service, and that since he is volunteering this effort,
that what is easiest for him is worth noting, although it wouldn't be
appropriate to switch standards every time we switch moderators.
Therefore, I think that which tool is easiest for the moderator is also
worth considering.

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Gary Campbell
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