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This is a VERY robust version of zoom, which in my opinion EVERYBODY should
use instead of dms:
- zoom is shareware but the WHOLE distrib is freely available (dms free version
is a degraded one)
- zoom file format is publicly described, allowed one to make unix tools to
check/split files
- zoom is faster AND more efficient than dms. takes about 5mn to compress a
disk, and this compresses more than max level of dms which takes 20 to 60
minutes!
- dms has bugs:
- dms can fail on archives passing the dms test check
- dms will happily compress disks with bad sectors without warnings!
(major annoyance)
Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research, Koala Project, GWM X11 WM
Phone:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.109 - 06561 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE.
(Registered Zoom user)