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Zoo (file format)

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Zoo archives can store multiple "generations" of a file; if files are added to an archive with the same pathname yet more recent date, if generations are enabled for the archive the older version(s) will be retained (with a semicolon and version number, similar to version numbers in the VMS and RT-11
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compression algorithm and compressed files are identified by the .zoo file extension. It is no longer widely used. Program source code was originally published on the comp.sources.misc
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operating systems) as the new file is added. This allows files that are frequently modified to be backed up in such a way as to allow access to previous versions (up to the
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program and format developed by Rahul Dhesi in the mid-1980s. The format is based on the
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Computer Aided Engineering Network. July 1994. p. 12.
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operating systems. Binaries were also published for the
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Zoo Tycoon

single source
talk page
improve this article
introducing citations to additional sources
"Zoo" file format
news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
Filename extension
Internet media type
data compression
data compression
LZW
Usenet
Unix-like
MS-DOS
AmigaOS
"Unraveling the mystery behind file extensions"
University of Michigan
zoo 2.10 source
unzoo
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Archive formats
ar

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