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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO
Message-ID: <7537@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 89 21:46:04 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
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I hope everybody will keep in mind that there are two related but
distinct issues here.

Issue 1:
   Usenet is made up mostly of UNIX machines, with a few MS-DOS systems
   on it and some email subscribers who use VMS and other systems.
   Because of lack of availability of portable versions of other
   archivers, the only contenders were arc and zoo formats.  And after
   extensive discussion (and two polls, one in May 1988 and another in
   March 1989) a switch to zoo format seemed to me to be more useful.

Issue 2:
   What archiver people use on their own machines will depend on their
   individual priorities.  Choices include pak (gsarc), arc, zoo, zip,
   pkarc, dwc, lharc, and probably others.

   A number of utilities have been posted in comp.binaries.ibm.pc that
   will allow users to convert between different archive formats.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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