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From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: ARC for Unix
Message-ID: <118@fiver.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 89 04:42:57 GMT
References: <644@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <5211@megatest.UUCP> <1142@hounix.UUCP>
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In article <1142@hounix.UUCP>, chuckb@hounix.UUCP (Chuck Bentley) writes:
> I suggest anyone looking for an archiver to use under XENIX/UNIX
> seriously look at zoo.  I've found it far superior to any of the
> ARC or PKARC or ZIP programs.  It runs on DOS (how can they call
> this an operating system, it's a monitor!!!) as well as UNIX.

   This is all to politicial of a argument. If you want to change *most*
of the archives to zoo your going to have to appeal to the site 
administrators. I admit on many university computers they may use zoo
most likely because they have no choice. On many same PC type Unix systems,
and MS DOS systems they end up with ARC, PKARC, and ZIP. Why because there
is alot of utilities available to convert the archives. Another reason is
the user interface is pleasent. I myself run an archive with about 110meg
of pk-arced files on a Xenix system. So with this in mind give me a 
superior arguement why I should spend all the time unarchiveing the 
archives and putting them in zoo. Also what is so wrong about haveing a
couple of different archivers available?
                   
---Bob


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