Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!decwrl!ogicse!plains!hoyt From: hoyt@plains.UUCP (Dean Hoyt) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: xx vs. uu Summary: Where are sources and a vote for zoo Keywords: xxencode uuencode zoo Message-ID: <3418@plains.UUCP> Date: 14 Feb 90 01:48:54 GMT References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Reply-To: hoyt@plains.UUCP (Dean Hoyt) Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 30 In article <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes: >The binaries that have appeared on c.b.i.p. have generally been UUencoded. >What I would like to propose now is a general switch to XXencode. I would not object to this switch. First though I would need sources to xxencode and xxdecode > >One a side note - when c.b.i.p starts running again, which of the available >file-compression utilities do the readers of the group want to be used ? >ZOO and ZIP are obvious candidates, but there may be other possibilities. > >Any suggestions ? Yes I would like to submit a vote for Zoo. The reasion for this is it runs on many platforms and I have tools set up to use it for an archive I maintain on our local machine. >Fridrik Skulason - University of Iceland, Computing Services. >frisk@rhi.hi.is Technical Editor, Virus Bulletin. Dean Hoyt uunet!plains!hoyt (UUCP) hoyt@plains (Bitnet) keeper of the pc archive. FTP plains user anonymos -- Dean Hoyt uunet!plains!hoyt (UUCP) hoyt@plains (Bitnet) keeper of the pc archive.