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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340
  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: using .zoo files?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep9.125140.5298@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 9 Sep 92 12:51:40 GMT
  7. References: <40825@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> <1992Sep4.232059.21538@njitgw.njit.edu> <+fnn0lf.xtifr@netcom.com>
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  10. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13.  
  14. In article <+fnn0lf.xtifr@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:
  15. >In <1992Sep4.232059.21538@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
  16. >
  17. >>Use the zoo archiver.  Download /pub/os2/all/archivers/zoo210e.exe.
  18. >                                          ^^^
  19. >This brings up an interesting point.  Has anyone considered recompiling
  20. >zoo as a 32-bit app?  (My IBM compiler is still on order, or I would).
  21. >Having a zoo that runs in a dosbox may be nice for some, but having a
  22. >(presumably much faster) 32-bit version might be nice for others....
  23.  
  24. Download the Unix sources.  It's all ANSI-C, so GCC/2 or EMX/GCC
  25. shouldn't have any problem.  When you get it done, upload it.
  26.  
  27. (This is one of the few cases where the "put up or shut up" argument
  28.  works here...)
  29.  
  30. -- 
  31.    |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  32.   /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
  33.  ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  34.   ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  35.