Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!! Message-ID: <2450@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 2 Jan 91 02:56:07 GMT Lines: 29 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <7434@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >I've had people mucking around with my system screw me over with that >before. You know, someone comes over and wants to run HAMGIF or whatever >and starts mucking about with C:. Last time they managed to remove >setpatch, then claim it was all due to a bug in 2.0 that setpatch >disappeared. Right, and the same bug made nushow and hamgif materialise >in C:? > >NEVER stick anything in C: that's not part of the distribution. It's just >asking for trouble. Directory "c:" on Wednesday 02-Jan-91 [ much deleted ] 508 files - 4 directories - 19696 blocks - 9625879 bytes I NEVER let anyone mess with my C: directory. Not even by remote control, via scripts. :-) -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+