Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!16012_3045
From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO
Message-ID: <2304@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 12 Jun 89 11:19:35 GMT
References: <999@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <120800003@silver> <7525@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2282@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1164@spudge.UUCP>
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Organisation: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada

In article <1164@spudge.UUCP>, johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) writes:
> This is one of the fundamental mistakes that people so often make when
> comparing archivers, uuencoders, or anything else where a standard exists.
> It "already works".  No, it doesn't, it "already works" for YOU.
              ... deleted ...
> I got sick of
> it and changed, I've been very happy since and I only have to use ONE program
> on all the machines I work on (VAX, Amiga, PC's, and Xenix Box)...zoo.

Fine. Give me a copy of ZOO which works on VAX/VMS _without_ the kludge of
having to use BILF.

> SEA wholly and
> completely owns the ARC format, the courts said so.

At the risk of initiating a dispute which I suspect neither of us is able to
settle, I suspect that the courts have not, in fact, said that SEA owns the ARC
format.  There was no judgement, and so the courts cannot have made a decision.
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