zoo
manipulate archives of files in compressed form
- Contributed by
- Lorne Wilkinson
- Obtained from
- News
- Restrictions
- Public Domain
- Description
-
Zoo is used to create and maintain collections of files
in compressed form. It uses a Lempel-Ziv compression
algorithm that gives space savings in the range of 20%
to 80% depending on the type of file data.
- Productivity
- Zoo is oneof the more popular MS-DOS archive utilities,
zoo for UNIX will provide portability between UNIX and
MS-DOS systems.
- Safety
- Used it for about 9 months now.
- Work Planned
- None
- Documentation
- Manual pages
- Verification
- Un zoo something that comes accross one of the comp.binaries
newsgroups.