Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!cgh!paul
From: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo
Keywords: zoo
Message-ID: <774@cgh.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 89 13:09:57 GMT
References: <13432@ncoast.ORG> <6584@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
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Organization: Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Radnor, PA
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>>I vote for zoo.  Subdirectories are wonderfull!
>>
>	Pkzip does subdirectories.

Zoo has been 'doing' subdirectories for two years.  PK's squashing (a.k.a.
13-bit LZW) was also an idea borrowed from zoo.  However, as much as the
work of Phil Katz and Rahul Dhesi converge, zoo is still FREE with the source
freely available, while PKZIP is still commercial.

THE SEA vs PK flap was primarily due to competeing commercial interests. 
The lesson I drew from that sorry affair was that our net-tools should
be public domain with freely available source, just like comp.sources;
and fully in the mainstream of the unix tradition.
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