Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: LHARC & ZOO Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 90 19:12:25 GMT Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California. Lines: 31 I've been looking at LHARC recently to see what the benefits of Yet Another Archiver Archiver is especially over ZOO. The compression algorithms that LHARC employs do seem to lead to better compression than the LZ compression that ZOO uses, but there is two things missing that currently keep me from switching: 1. LHARC doesn't allow comments to be attached to individual files in an archive (at least as far as I can see) like ZOO does. The comments allow me to attach reminders to files rather than to the whole archive which means that I don't have to create a lot of little archives for different sets of files when one file will suffice. 2. More importantly, I'm currently working on Unix and VMS machines as well as my Amiga at home. ZOO has a wider range of platforms supported and, so, I can easily ship ZOO files of software back and forth amongst the machines (VMS is a little tricky, but not that bad ;-). So, my hope is that software put up on comp.(sources|binaries).amiga (as well as elsewhere) continues to be put up in some sort of zoo format at least until a new archiver comes along that meets the following requirements (in decreasing order of importance): 1. More supported operating systems. 2. Better compression algorithms. 3. More flexibility in its options. -- =================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mt. View, CA 94043 =================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"