Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe
From: keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standard format for ARCed files
Message-ID: <3220@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 88 22:18:25 GMT
References: <5439@swan.ulowell.edu> <1510012@acf8.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
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In article <1510012@acf8.UUCP> movshon@acf8.UUCP (Tony Movshon) writes:
>Brian O'Neill proposes that all binaries be posted as self-extracting
>archives using that feature of the PK-ware programs. The disadvantage
>of this system is that people cannot examine the archives on non-DOS
>systems to see if it's worth shipping them across to their PCs.
>
>Please leave the archive format for binaries in a state that Unix ARC
>can handle. Don't waste any more bandwidth than you have to ...
>
>					Tony Movshon

I concurr with this entirely. I routinely stash the stuff away in a
UNIX subdirectory and check it out with the UNIX arc program. And,
using PC-NFS, I can execute the program while it still resides on the
UNIX host and, hopefully, reduce the trojan attacks on my local hard
disk.

So, self-extracting archives are good and bad, but (in my biased
opinion) mostly bad.

keith

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