Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lakesys!mikes From: mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com (Mike Shawaluk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: LHARC & ZOO Message-ID: <1635@lakesys.lakesys.com> Date: 2 Feb 90 14:15:17 GMT References: Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 37 In article cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >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. If you haven't already seen PKAZIP, you will probably like the way that it handles comments; namely, they are imported/exported Amiga file comments! Also, owing to the terrible, memory-hungry, and completely undesirable Intuition-based interface that's employed (please note: sarcasm mode ON for previous statement), you are able to actually EDIT the file comments, and not simply re-enter them (via a text gadget). Also, you can search through one or more .ZIP files for a particular substring in either the file name or the file comment, which could also come in handy. >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 ;-). At this moment, ZOO and ARC certainly have the widest range of available platforms, but soon to be released is a VMS version of PKZIP, which I am working on, under contract to PKWARE, so it will be a full-featured (i.e., not an "extract-only") version. It uses the standard VMS command line interface, but is completely file compatible with .ZIP files produced by MS-DOS and Amiga versions of ZIP. For UN*X, you may have a longer wait, as the only versions I know of in that domain are extract-only; however, I have heard that there is some work being done on a more full-featured UN*X version, but my knowledge in that area is incomplete. -- - Mike Shawaluk "Rarely have we seen a mailer -> DOMAIN: mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com fail which has thoroughly -> UUCP: ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!mikes followed these paths." -> BITNET: 7117SHAWALUK@MUCSD