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From: p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: F-prot v1.13 (PC)
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Date: 3 May 91 04:16:02 GMT
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hemmo@machina.hut.fi (Juha Hemminki) writes:

> I would like to know why the version of F-chk I have (1.13) wants to
> write a temporary file called LZ__TEMP.TMP to DOS current directory.

F-FCHK will check compressed LZEXE format files.  In order to do so, it
has to decompress it.

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