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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Beyond shar (Re: shars and security concerns.)
Message-ID: <2499@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 7 May 90 15:43:35 GMT
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In <--830L1ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why not just switch to something that was (once upon a time, anyway) common,
>...  The Software Tools archive format.
It doesn't protect against leading characters that can cause problems, like
	[SPACE] . ~

/r$
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