Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!falkor!heiby From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion Message-ID: <164@falkor.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 02:20:36 GMT References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM> <542@csccat.UUCP> Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Organization: Luck Dragons, Magic, & Friends Lines: 33 Chuck Brunow (loci@csccat.UUCP) writes: > In article <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: > > > >My understanding is that zoo can handle directories and arc can't. If > >that is true, it would seem zoo is preferable. > > ??????????? what's preferable about that? Doesn't your system > have a file system? You know, the things that list when you > say "dir". Funny thing about the file system is that it's already > got directories (an idea they picked up from unix). [irrelevant flame about MS-DOS filesystem deleted] > >Plus you can easily get zoo on many other operating systems like Unix. > Keep you junk on your own machine, Unix doesn't need it. [japan flame deleted] [ad hominem attack deleted] Looks like Chuck got up on the wrong side of the bed. Not only did he miss the entire point that Phil was making (quite eloquently, I believe), but he decided to lob a few insults at Phil to top everything off. Chuck, you really should re-read your postings before you send them off. Now, to business! The point made about zoo being able to handle directories is that you can save a sub-treee using zoo. In arc, there is no knowledge of the directory structure the files came from. You can have only one file named "MAKEFILE" in an .ARC file, but several (one per directory) in a zoo archive. Consider how useful/useless tar and cpio would be if they didn't know how to make use of the UNIX filesystem. I'd say that zoo is to (UNIX's) tar/cpio as arc is to (UNIX's) ar. Yes, "the file system's already got directories", but that is the argument *in favor* of an archive method that understands them! -- Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix "I believe in the Tooth Fairy." "I believe in Santa Claus." "I believe in the future of the Space Program."