Talk:Zoo (file format)

Latest comment: 15 years ago by AnonMoos in topic TODO
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TODO edit

There needs to be mentions of ZOO 2.10's "new" license (no longer public domain) regarding minimum distribution charge, the slower speed of 2.10 (and added high compression), STUFF, FIZ, SEZ, LOOZ, which archivers ZOO was competing with (DWC, ZIP, ARC), ZOO's derivation from AR002 (like LHA, ARJ, UC2, ZIP), the third-party multi-volume-file ZOO (never did get incorporated into a new ZOO), plus the various bugs (e.g., 32k cluster size on Win95 messes up extraction? see comp.compression). I'm no authority on these things, but I'll try to update this info here later (if no one else does first). Armslurp 14:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

ZOO had some niche successes, but it wasn't able to make much headway in the MS-DOS world at the beginning of the 1990's (when the compression archive format situation was in flux), partly because its compression speed on a 10 MHZ 286 system was almost an order of magnitude slower than PKWARE products... AnonMoos (talk) 21:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

A7-DC-FD-C4 vs. DC-A7-C4-FD edit

The difference is one of endianness... AnonMoos (talk) 20:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

DEAD LINK edit

The external link http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/multi-platform/gap/util/ is no longer available.