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From: dak@hpausla.HP.COM (Dave Kruger)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: FYI: A Truly pd yacc. (zoo)
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Date: 6 Sep 89 01:46:43 GMT
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> For those who are interested, and who are tired of/annoyed by Bison's
> copylefted skeleton, availability of a truly PD Yacc-compatible LALR
> parser generator ZOO was announced by its author Bob Corbett, who's parser
> generator (written as a part of his graduate work at Cal) was used in
> Bison as well.


Terific.  But did he *have* to call it zoo?

Rahul Dhesi (the moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc) has written an excellant
program for archiving numbers of files.  This program is a viable replacement
for a well-known archiver called ARC, and is available for several operating
systems, notably UNIX and MS-DOS.  It has several supporting programs: SEZ
makes self-extracting archives for MS-DOS systems; FIZ allows you to recover
data from damaged archives on UNIX and MS-DOS (and probably others); LOOZ is a
method of listing the contents of archives; BOOZ is a means of extracting
files from an archive.

Notice the ominous presence of Z in all these names.  Rahul's excellant
program is called ZOO.  The current version is 2.01.  It has been available
for about two years.