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From: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Binaries and which packing (Was Re: xx vs. uu)
Summary: zip zoo lharc
Message-ID: <1489@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 21:45:44 GMT
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1990Feb14.134810.8305@uwasa.fi> <1745@borabora.omni.com>
Reply-To: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
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In article <1745@borabora.omni.com> bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
[... stuff deleted...]
>> 4) Compared to .arc .zip and .lzh (all now more or less available
>> for unix), .zoo was (and is) quite cumbersome to use, especially in
>> packing. 
>
>I beg to differ.  I don't have extensive experience with zip, and none
>with lzh, but zoo is the first archiver I've seen which lets you pack an
>entire directory hierarchy with one command, and unpack it into the same
>hierarchy with one command.  This is real useful.  You just have to forget

>Bob Weissman

I also think that this is important (maintaining directory heirarchies).
That has been the biggest advantage of zoo that I have seen.  I do have
a couple of questions relevant to the above though:

  1) Where can I get a unix version of zoo?
  2) Where can I get the latest lharc for MSDOS & unix?
	(I got lharc10e.com off of grape, but I had an older list
	that showed lharc113 -- this wasn't on grape)

I like ZIP, and it is much faster than the lharc I tried (1.00), but it would
be nice to have a program that was truly free, and that had compress & 
decompress in the same program.

bob
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Bob Robison	- Southwest Research Institute, Electromagnetics Div.
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