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Recently, I announced a version of Zoo 2.01 for the Atari ST. At that time, I 
had asked Rahul Dhesi, the author of the Zoo program, to relax his copyright 
restrictements for the ST version of Zoo. In the meantime, he has responded 
to my request and I'm now allowed to distribute binary and source separately.
This is a big plus because the Zoo source is big, about 200 Kb (compressed).
 
For those of you who don't know what Zoo is: Zoo is a file archiver, in my 
humble opinion *much* better than ARC. Zoo is -roughly- twice as fast as ARC, 
and has several unique features. I name for example Zoo's built-in directory 
support: Zoo can be told to record both filename and pathname; it is even 
possible to let Zoo create any directory needed when extracting using full 
pathnames. Zoo even comes with a special utility, FIZ.TTP, which can be used 
to extract as much as possible from corrupted archive. Try that with ARC!

Zoo/ST has one new feature: is is now possible to place the contents of a 
complete directory tree in a Zoo archive. In this way, Zoo acts like a 
combination of the UNIX utilities "tar" and "compress".
 
The current version of Zoo/ST is very reliable: around 25 people are 
currently using it. I plan to keep Zoo/ST in beta test for another week to 
abandon most of the bugs (I expect they still exist 8-)
 
So, at the end of Februar, I will send the binary (size only 37Kb) to 
comp.binaries.atari.st and the diffs to comp.sources.atari.st. The general 
Zoo bugs I've found will be posted to comp.sources.bugs RSN.
 
Someone asked me if Zoo archives can be extracted and listed with the program 
Booz, which was posted to comp.binaries.atari.st some time ago. The answer 
is: Yes! Booz was only written because the Zoo source is spreaded in a Zoo 
archive, so one had to have a small extraction-only tool to bootstrap Zoo!

Finally, it's nice to remark that about 2 days after I uploaded a beta 
version of Zoo/ST to some Dutch BBSes, somebody started writing a graphical 
shell, much like the very popular ARCSH graphical shell for ARC. When this 
program is fully developed, it will be posted to comp.binaries.atari.st as 
well. Give "ZOOBOY" a few more weeks...

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