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From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1988 00:08

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In article <135@fishpond.UUCP> fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>If the zoo format definition doesn't have any "reserved for future use"
>fields, then I guess you are out of luck...

Actually it does, and what's more, they are defined in such a way that
zoo archives containing these additional fields will remain downward
compatible in the future.

However, zoo archives have been steadily growing in size since 1986.
Each new field that is added enlarges the archive slightly.  This makes
a difference especially if you have an archive containing many small
files.

The main reason for avoiding defining too many additional fields is the
complexity of the archive (bigger archives) and the complexity of the
code (bigger executable zoo), less space left on your disk.  The MS-DOS
zoo version 1.0 was 29 kilobytes; version 2.01 is now up to 40 K and
still growing.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: zoo
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Date: 16 Oct 88 00:08:28 GMT
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