> < ^ Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:23:00 +0100
> < ^ From: Steve Linton <sal@dcs.st-and.ac.uk >
< ^ Subject: Re: Archiving programs and the GAP distribution

Dear GAP Forum,

Jean-Eric Pin updated us on the state of MacOS unpacking programs, for which
thanks. Just to pick up one remark:

> There are absolutely no problem for the Mac. Everybody nowadays makes use
> of StuffIt Expander which does the job perfectly. I don't see any benefit
> in using zoo nowadays. For a Mac user, it takes much longer to extract a
> zoo archive than any other archive downloaded from the web.
>
The latest versions of unzoo for Windows and Macintosh are much faster than
earlier ones, and should not be dramatically slower than competing programs.

Steve

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