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Article #2276Re: why zoo...
From: Piercarlo Grandi
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1989 10:58
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1989 10:58
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In article <615670847.12121@myrias.uucp> mj@myrias.uucp (Michal Jaegermann) writes: In response to Lee Dickey question why zoo is preferable over arc. Besides of a possibility of storing the whole tree of subdirectories (which can be fairly important, but can be achieved also with arc'ed shar or tar format) there is also a business of recovery. There is also the non trivial aspect, for everyday users of zoo or arc, that zoo is vastly faster, because it does not do two or more passes over the files to archive to determine which is the best compression method. Zoo uses one of the best compressions right away, betting that almost always is the optimal one, and is very much faster for this. Overall zoo is "arc with hindsight". -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!thor!pcg From: pcg@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: why zoo... Message-ID: <PCG.89Jul7115844@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk> Date: 7 Jul 89 10:58:44 GMT References: <615670847.12121@myrias.uucp> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mj@myrias.uucp's message of 5 Jul 89 19:40:46 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Wed Mar 15 1989 on thor (berkeley-unix)