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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR MacZOO 2.1
1/7/92
The interface to MacZOO is a command line interface -- sorry, but
we wanted to modify a minimum amount of the code written by ZOO's
creator, Rahul Dhesi. After double clicking on the MacZOO icon,
type in the command line arguments as described in ZOO.MAN. For
example, if on a UNIX or MS-DOS command line you would type "zoo
a temp *.c" (which would add all files with names ending in ".c"
to a ZOO archive called "temp.zoo"), you would enter "a temp *.c"
in the MacZOO startup window.
Also, MacZOO will not archive and compress anything but text files.
Executable files on the Mac, for example, are not single files like
they are on most other systems, and so ZOO would have to be
extensively modified to handle them.
Thus, MacZOO is intended as a program to handle archives of text
files which will be transferred among various machines. Since ZOO
runs on UNIX machines, OS/2 machines, NeXTs, Amigas, Ataris, and
MS-DOS machines, Macs can now handle ZOO files created by these
machines and vice versa. Even Apple II's and CP/M machines have
unZOO programs.
There are two things you should keep in mind when transferring text
files among various machines: not all machines can handle long
file names or file names with spaces in them, and different machines
use different characters to signify the end of a line of text.
For example, MS-DOS machines can handle only file names made up of
eight characters, a period, and then three more characters (like
"ihate_ms.dos"); and Macs terminate a line of text with a carriage
return, while MS-DOS machines terminate a line of text with a
carriage return/line feed pair. UNIX uses only a line feed. Thus,
you may need a program or a word processor which can switch line
termination around (there are such public domain utilities available
on GEnie and other online services and bulletin boards).
By "text file," by the way, we mean files saved as text only. The
files saved by most word processors are not text files -- they
contain special characters to indicated underlining, special fonts,
etc. However, most word processors have an option for saving files
as pure text (sometimes referred to as an "ASCII file").
ZOO 2.1 was ported to the Mac by Jim Wolff and Brooke Anderson,
who assume no responsibility for the results of using MacZOO --
even if it causes your computer to explode, killing everyone within
a several block radius.