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- From: dsb@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Scott Bigham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Zoo shells
- Message-ID: <724378203@majors7.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:10:04 GMT
- References: <1fuu0aINN7e5@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <6VL9UAU@math.fu-berlin.de> <1g1hv1INNgd9@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- Organization: n. Arrangement in an orderly or logical fashion. See "miracle".
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- From the Holy Book of <1g1hv1INNgd9@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- as spake by sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz :
-
- > ZOO is Rubish, its a Unix Port....
-
- And speaking of non sequiturs...
-
- Please explain to us, Roger, why a Unix ancestry automatically makes a
- program rubbish. Some of the most useful and powerful software on my
- computer (LaTeX, tcsh, byacc, flex, indent [and GCC, but I don't actually
- have that one ;) ]) were ported straight from Unix.
-
- And I, Roger, can download a .ZOO file from atari.archive to the Unix
- account which is my only link to the net and examine it _right_there_ to
- determine whether it's worth spending half an hour downloading it to my
- ST at 1200 baud. Can you do that with your vaunted LZH201L?
-
- >Why not try LZH201L and find out what a real Archiver should be...??!!
-
- Let me tell you a story, Roger. A few months ago, I obtained some .LZH
- files that I _had_ to unpack (some software I was beta-ing). To my
- dismay, none of the lharc programs I had could understand them. "Ah
- well," I said, "I need to get a more recent version of Lharc." So I
- consulted archie and found what was then probably the latest version,
- LZH201I.LZH.
-
- I tried every version of Lharc I owned, Roger. _None_ of them would
- unpack it.
-
- I _have_ used Lharc, Roger. I still haven't figured out how to expand a
- .LZH-compressed directory tree into subdirectories (call me
- anglocentric, but having the on-line help in a language I can actually
- read is a plus in my book). Zoo does that automatically. And when I
- can't be certain that the archive I'm creating on this machine will
- uncompress on another machine which has a subtly different version of
- the archiver, I start to distrust that archiver.
-
- I'm beginning to wonder if you have a personal vendetta against Rahul
- Dhesi, or were beaten with Unix manuals as a child ;). And before
- you're tempted to shoot back a reply of the form, "NO! ZOO is
- Rubish!!!!! [sic]", take a deep breath, count to ten, and don't.
-
- -sbigham
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