Zoo

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File Format
Name Zoo
Ontology
Extension(s) .zoo
PRONOM x-fmt/269
Wikidata ID Q219983
Released 1986

Zoo is a compressed archive format developed by Rahul Dhesi. It was one of the many competing archive formats in the 1980s, and was based (originally) on LZW compression. It had some popularity with Open/VMS and Amiga systems, but didn't ultimately win out over ZIP.

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Identification

Files have bytes DC A7 C4 FD at offset 20.

Compression

There are three known compression methods:

  • 0 - uncompressed
  • 1 - LZW, also called "LZD"
  • 2 - LZH

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