Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!rwh
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
From: rwh@me.utoronto.ca (Russ Herman)
Subject: Re: which archiver/compresser and encoder/decoder to use?
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.205313.7334@me.toronto.edu>
Keywords: archivers, compression, encoding
Organization: none
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3418@plains.UUCP> <1990Feb14.154555.2435@mks.com> <2790@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Date: 16 Feb 90 01:53:14 GMT

One advantage to PKZIP amd ZOO that no-one has mentioned yet is their
ease of handling nested directories.  ZIP is a tad easier because you
can do it all from the command line, but a one-liner invoking 'find'
generates the file list for zoo aI..  Until we see a ZIP-clone, freeware,
for all the non-PC world, I'm in favour of staying with ZOO (even though
the first thing I do after D/L is convert to ZIP).

I think the more serious problem is around encoders, what with EBCDIC and
international character sets.  UU doesn't cut it in that broader perspective.

Russ Herman
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