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From: Murph Sewall
I've seen a couple of reports that the MacBooz .zoo file extractor
doesn't always produce good files. Here's an alternative, that also has
some limitations but may work better (It's 50K bytes larger, so it
should do more, yes?). I haven't had an occasion to use either program,
so I can't say whether either works or not.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR MacZOO 2.1
1/7/92
The interface to MacZOO is a command line interface -- sorry, but
we wanted to modify a minimum amount of the code written by ZOO's
creator, Rahul Dhesi. After double clicking on the MacZOO icon,
type in the command line arguments as described in ZOO.MAN. For
example, if on a UNIX or MS-DOS command line you would type "zoo
a temp *.c" (which would add all files with names ending in ".c"
to a ZOO archive called "temp.zoo"), you would enter "a temp *.c"
in the MacZOO startup window.
Also, MacZOO will not archive and compress anything but text files.
Executable files on the Mac, for example, are not single files like
they are on most other systems, and so ZOO would have to be
extensively modified to handle them.
Thus, MacZOO is intended as a program to handle archives of text
files which will be transferred among various machines. Since ZOO
runs on UNIX machines, OS/2 machines, NeXTs, Amigas, Ataris, and
MS-DOS machines, Macs can now handle ZOO files created by these
machines and vice versa. Even Apple II's and CP/M machines have
unZOO programs.
ZOO 2.1 was ported to the Mac by Jim Wolff and Brooke Anderson,
who assume no responsibility for the results of using MacZOO --
even if it causes your computer to explode, killing everyone within
a several block radius.