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- ZOO 2.01 -- MS-DOS BINARY DISTRIBUTION
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- Repackaged May 1989
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- This package contains version 2.01 of the Zoo archive program, along with
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- the supporting utilities Fiz 2.0 and Stuff 2.0
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- REDISTRIBUTION
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- Because all the programs in this package support one another, and because it
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- is nearly impossible to use them properly without the user manuals, I
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- strongly recommend that everything in this package be distributed together.
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- If necessary you can distribute the executable programs separately, but you
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- should in that case be sure to warn the recipient that there is more, and
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- how and where to get it.
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- CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE
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- In addition to the file "readme.1st", which you are reading, the following
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- files are included in this package. File sizes, dates, times, and CRC
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- values (as found in a zoo archive with the "zoo lC" command) are shown
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- below.
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- 10716 31 Jan 88 23:40:04 b60f fiz.exe
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- 4132 13 Feb 88 15:09:12 cf97 fiz.man
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- 13004 20 Mar 89 00:32:12 e087 stuff.doc
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- 14928 5 Mar 89 04:58:34 086e stuff.exe
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- 40078 25 Aug 88 18:08:18 27db zoo.exe
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- 53706 24 May 89 21:00:20 88b6 zoo.man
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- fiz.exe:
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- Fiz 2.0, the Fix Zoo utility. This program helps recover data from damaged
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- zoo archives. The existence of fiz.exe does not indicate that zoo archives
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- are easily damaged (they are not, and they are immune to trailing garbage
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- added by some file transfer protocols). But should a transmission error
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- result in a corrupted download of a zoo archive, you will likely be able to
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- recover the data from most or all of the undamaged parts of the damaged
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- archive.
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- fiz.man:
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- The user manual for Fiz.
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- stuff.exe:
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- Stuff 2.0, a file finder for use with Zoo 2.01. This program will generate a
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- list of pathnames based on selection criteria that you decide. The output
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- may be fed to Zoo 2.01 through a pipe to allow you to archive one or more
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- subdirectory hierarchies. Later, the resulting zoo archive can be extracted
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- to recreate the original subdirectory hierarchy.
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- stuff.doc:
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- The user manual for Stuff 2.0.
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- zoo.exe:
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- Zoo 2.01, a file archiving program. Currently zoo is available in binary
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- form for AmigaDOS and MS-DOS and in C source form for MS-DOS, VAX/VMS, and
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- **IX and look-alike systems. It has been ported to a large number
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- of systems including various flavors of **IX, Atari/ST, OS-9, and OS/2.
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- zoo.man:
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- The user manual for zoo 2.01.
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- OTHER PROGRAMS
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- In addition to Zoo, Stuff, and Fiz, which are included in this package, other
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- supporting programs that you may find useful are:
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- Sez 2.3: (Self-Extracting Zoo) This program will convert any Zoo archive
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- to self-extracting form in a few seconds. Self-extraction overhead is less
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- than 2500 bytes, and the self-extracting archive will recreate the original
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- contents of the zoo archive when executed on any MS-DOS system. These
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- self-extracting archives can be extracted on non-MS-DOS systems too with the
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- help of Fiz 2.0 and Zoo 2.01.
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- Looz 2.1: (Ooz with List) This program will extract, list, and execute
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- files from zoo archives on any MS-DOS system. As far as I can tell, Looz is
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- the only program in existence for MS-DOS systems that allows you to have
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- executable programs stored in compressed form and execute them by extracting
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- directly into memory, with no net memory penalty, no need for any temproary
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- disk space, and with the usual MS-DOS command-line arguments, I/O
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- redirection, and piping fully available. There are substantial savings in
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- disk space due to avoiding fragmentation if many small EXE or COM programs
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- are stored in a zoo archive. For example, if you have 20 tiny programs on a
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- hard disk, each 100 bytes long, you will typically tie up 40 kilobytes of
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- disk space (160 kilobytes under some earlier versions of MS-DOS). Stored in
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- a Zoo archive, these programs will take up about 4 kilobytes or less; if
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- stored uncompressed, execution can still be virtually instantaneous.
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- AVAILABILITY OF SOURCE CODE
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- Source code was posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sources.unix in early
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- 1989. I also uploaded it to GEnie's IBM PC RoundTable in late 1988. It may
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- be available from other sources such as bulletin boards.
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- COPYRIGHT
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- The MS-DOS executable version of zoo 2.01 is Copyright 1988 Rahul Dhesi, All
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- Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to copy as described below:
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- DISTRIBUTION IN UNMODIFIED FORM: You may copy this software in
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- unmodified form for any purpose, whether commercial or
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- noncommercial, provided that you make no attempt to restrict
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- distribution of it by others.
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- The source distribution contains the complete copyright for those wishing to
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- restrict redistribution or create modifications or derivative works.
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- -- Rahul Dhesi 1989/05/25
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