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From: ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (john wavrik)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: ZOO vs PKARC
Keywords: finder utility
Message-ID: <3802@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 11 Aug 88 17:15:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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I've used PKARC because it is fast and because of the support program
PKFIND (it works like WHEREIS programs -- but will also search for a
file inside archive files).
 
 I've recently started to use ZOO because it can handle directory hierarchy
 and because of the support program STUFF (it allows users to archive files
 meeting certain conditions -- for example all those modified after a certain
 date)
  
  The result is that most of my little used files are stored in ARC format (to
  save space on hard disk) but fractional backups and transfers to another 
  computer are in ZOO format.  It would be convenient to use one format. ZOO
  is probably closer to meeting all my needs -- if only there were a "ZOOFIND"
  utility [and a small "ZOOE" extractor that could be packaged with software
  sent to people who might not have ZOO].
   
					      --John J Wavrik
					       
					       jjwavrik@ucsd.edu