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From: bandy@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix - is this a sensible thought ?
Message-ID: <14595@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 17:16:10 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.14595
Posted: Thu Feb  5 17:16:10 1987
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Reply-To: bandy@amdcad.UUCP (Andy Beals)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <552@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>[ blindly unsharing things is dumb ]
>[ there should be an "unshar" script to protect from bozoes ]

How quickly the young forget their history!  There have been a number
of unshar programs posted, one of which was written by Michael Mauldin (mlm,
aka "Fuzzy" in his Gloria file) of CMU.  The date in the man page is 29 Jan
1985.

I'm not sure about MLM's, but at least one of the unshar programs was
written so that you could unshar (and shar) on your Amiga (or ST or...).

>Makefiles also introduce this security problem, I realize, but we can
>only go so far.

What do you think "make -n" is for?
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Andrew Scott Beals, {lll-crg,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!bandy +1 408 749 3683