[GAP Forum] why zoo?

[Frank Lübeck]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:54:22AM +0300, Igor Korepanov wrote:
> Just one more question: is .zoo a somehow preferred way of archiving for GAP people? And why so if .tar.bz2 is so evidently better?

But all of our archives are provided in .zoo, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and -win.zip
format. You are free to use what you like most!

.tar.bz2 is not "evidently better", e.g. it does not unpack text files
under Windows/DOS with the native line break convention, and it is much
slower to unpack them compared to, say, .tar.gz.

See 
  http://www.gap-system.org/Download/formats.html
for more details.

Best regards,
   Frank Lübeck

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