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From the Holy Book of <1g1hv1INNgd9@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
  as spake by sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz :

> ZOO is Rubish, its a Unix Port....           

And speaking of non sequiturs...

Please explain to us, Roger, why a Unix ancestry automatically makes a
program rubbish.  Some of the most useful and powerful software on my
computer (LaTeX, tcsh, byacc, flex, indent [and GCC, but I don't actually
have that one ;) ]) were ported straight from Unix.

And I, Roger, can download a .ZOO file from atari.archive to the Unix
account which is my only link to the net and examine it _right_there_ to
determine whether it's worth spending half an hour downloading it to my
ST at 1200 baud.  Can you do that with your vaunted LZH201L?

>Why not try LZH201L and find out what a real Archiver should be...??!!

Let me tell you a story, Roger.  A few months ago, I obtained some .LZH
files that I _had_ to unpack (some software I was beta-ing).  To my
dismay, none of the lharc programs I had could understand them.  "Ah
well," I said, "I need to get a more recent version of Lharc."  So I
consulted archie and found what was then probably the latest version,
LZH201I.LZH.

I tried every version of Lharc I owned, Roger.  _None_ of them would
unpack it.

I _have_ used Lharc, Roger.  I still haven't figured out how to expand a
.LZH-compressed directory tree into subdirectories (call me
anglocentric, but having the on-line help in a language I can actually
read is a plus in my book).  Zoo does that automatically.  And when I
can't be certain that the archive I'm creating on this machine will
uncompress on another machine which has a subtly different version of
the archiver, I start to distrust that archiver.

I'm beginning to wonder if you have a personal vendetta against Rahul
Dhesi, or were beaten with Unix manuals as a child ;).  And before
you're tempted to shoot back a reply of the form, "NO! ZOO is
Rubish!!!!! [sic]", take a deep breath, count to ten, and don't.

						-sbigham
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