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.