> On Wed, 22 May 2024, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > it seems that no knowledgable person finds zoo interesting enough to fix > > it. > > and those who care about zoo have no clue.
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 12:24 PM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Was zoo even popular in its heyday? > > I feel like when it comes to DOS, for the last 30 years it's been > exclusively ZIP, except in Japan where it's been exclusively LHA... My experience was ZOO was somewhat popular for sharing files for a while. I found a lot of ZOO files on ftp sites at the time, and shared on Usenet using ASCII encoding. I saw LHA for a while, and that was much better than ZOO. For what I saw, LHA (almost?) completely replaced ZOO. But once ZIP came along (with Pkzip) everything moved to ZIP almost overnight. It was like everyone stopped using LHA and moved to ZIP. And once Info-Zip happened, you started to see ZIP files on Unix systems too. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
