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zoo files extraction (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 27.01.2024, 21:42

> Thanks for response. The last version of the program is from 1991, I assume
> that there will be no updates in the near future, so I will add a comment
> in FD help that it may cause problems on newer systems.

A lot of archivers reused the same compression code (with small tweaks), e.g. ARC, LZH, ZOO, ARJ, ZIP, RAR. They were all competing and thus redundant, so I don't expect most people to actively use all of them.

BOOZ was a .ZOO unpacker only. FIZ (?) .ZOO sfx is hard to find. X1 DOS archiver (e.g. on Sac.SK) supported multiple archives including .ZOO (but needed to be restubbed since its older PMODE/W was buggy). There was also a third-party source that supported DJGPP v1 (!). I can't quite remember and would have to search old emails or forum posts, but I think it was UnZOO. I vaguely remember a Cygwin build.

> At the moment I do not remember OTHER apps with the same bug, but there are
> still a lot of programs that support FAT16 only and should be improved for
> FAT32 usage, e.g. chkdsk and scandisk (scandisk has only restricted FAT32
> support).

For FAT32, I think dosfsck is preferred.

Complete thread:

• zoo files extraction - fritz.mueller, 26.01.2024, 17:17
  • zoo files extraction - RayeR, 26.01.2024, 17:21
    • zoo files extraction - Ringding, 26.01.2024, 17:38
      • zoo files extraction - mceric, 26.01.2024, 21:19
  • zoo files extraction - jadoxa, 27.01.2024, 03:55
    • zoo files extraction - mceric, 27.01.2024, 12:01
      • zoo files extraction - fritz.mueller, 27.01.2024, 19:10
        • zoo files extraction - Rugxulo, 27.01.2024, 21:42
          • zoo files extraction - Rugxulo, 28.01.2024, 15:34
        • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - mceric, 27.01.2024, 21:48
          • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - Ringding, 28.01.2024, 20:13
            • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - Rugxulo, 28.01.2024, 22:53
            • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - RayeR, 29.01.2024, 06:29
              • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - rr, 29.01.2024, 08:45
              • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - Ringding, 29.01.2024, 09:03
                • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - RayeR, 29.01.2024, 13:45
                  • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - fritz.mueller, 29.01.2024, 18:52
                • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - Rugxulo, 29.01.2024, 21:02
          • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - rr, 29.01.2024, 08:55
            • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - roytam, 29.01.2024, 10:06
              • zoo cluster size overflow vs chkdsk or scandisk for fat32 - rr, 29.01.2024, 19:07
      • zoo files extraction - RayeR, 28.01.2024, 15:05
        • zoo files extraction - Ringding, 28.01.2024, 20:22
          • zoo files extraction - fritz.mueller, 28.01.2024, 22:21