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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Self-extracting Archives?
Message-ID: <3210@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 01:07:41 GMT
References: <16559@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Feb17.081325.4528@uwasa.fi>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1991Feb17.081325.4528@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
| In article <16559@milton.u.washington.edu> gnat@milton.u.washington.edu (lbf) writes:
| :
| >I am looking for a compression program that gives me an executable file
| >so that I don't have to send the compressor with the disc.  Isn't there

  There are several programs which create self-extracting archives, and
it has been suggested that cbip use one, so we wouldn't have to send out
an extractor. It was considered too dangerous with regard to viruses
(and that was several years ago).
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