silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (05/31/90)
In article <734@zinn.MV.COM> kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) writes:
[several comments about the use and functionality of different archivers]
ZOO is used a lot both here and in the PC newsgroups. Both it and LHARC
support directory structures, which is a great help if you are sending a
large package with source code, docs, etc.
In addition, both ZOO and LHARC support self-extracting archives, at
least in the PC implementations. ZOO requires a supplementary program
(SEZ), but LHARC does everything in one package.
My favourite all-around archiver is ZOO. The main reasons are:
Portability -- I can read the same archive under Unix, ST, PC.
Written in C, I can port it to other systems.
Directory support (as mentioned above).
However, for the PC alone I prefer LHARC, both for ease of building
self-extracting archives and, above all, for superb compression.
Almost always, LHARC writes the smallest archives. But I agree that it
is not a great choice for a newsgroup, because of the portability
problems. So I recommend that we use ZOO as much as possible, with ARC
maintained for backwards compatibility.
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BITNET=bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac InterNet=bill%biomel@cs.dal.can160ao@tamuts.tamu.edu (Mark Lehmann) (12/02/90)
I'm looking for a good archiver that has ARC, LZH, ZOO, and ZIP formats. A TAR decoder for the ST would also be nice. I have an ARC, and LZH decorder, but I am looking for a ZOO, ZIP, and TAR decoder. Please tell me what you have had luck with. Thanks. Mark Lehmann tamuts.tamu.edu!n160ao
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (12/02/90)
- I'm looking for a good archiver that has ARC, LZH, ZOO, and ZIP
- formats. A TAR decoder for the ST would also be nice.
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- I have an ARC, and LZH decorder, but I am looking for a ZOO, ZIP,
- and TAR decoder. Please tell me what you have had luck with.
I have DC Xtract 2.0 from Double Click Software and it's pretty good.
It's the only archiver for the ST that ZIPs files (there are others
that unZIP). It also has ARC, LZH, and ZOO, although as I discovered
tonight with HacMan II, the extract ZOO function doesn't extract to
directories, even though I had the create directories set to yes. It
doesn't have TAR built-in however. You may be able to work something
out with ARCGSH 3.2; I'm not too fluent with TAR or ARCGSH though.
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