rmpinchback@crocus.waterloo.edu (Reid M. Pinchback) (08/13/88)
Though I've used PKARC for quite awhile, and personally prefer it
over ARC, there is a lot to be said for going to some other format that
isn't battled over so much. However, the PK*** lovers complain that
the other popular alternative (ZOO) is too slow, since the former is
assemblerized, the latter is in C.
Standing offer: If anybody sends me source, executable, and documentation
for the most recent version(s) of zoo, and any miscellaneous support programs
that come with it (library managers and stuff), I'll PORT the damn thing
to assembler. I've had to implement high-speed software encryption and
binary string manipulations before, so I've gotten used to squeezing a lot
out of a little 8088 (or related). I don't have FTP access to get it from
out of somebody elses library, and I'm not up to paying a long-distance bill
across the border to track it down at 1200 baud. Besides, if I'm going to
be putting in all that time, its nice to know somebody wants the results
badly enuf to take the time to shar something up and mail it.
Okay ZOO lovers. The ball is in your court.
By the way, if anybody is going to send it...send me a note first.
That way I insure multi-megabytes of copies of ZOO don't come flying over
the net to me when some kind soul has already provided me with one.
Reid M. Pinchback
Undergrad, CS/C&O
U. of Waterloo