Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@ists (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ARC for Unix
Summary: auto cancel all Unix binaries.
Message-ID: <197@ists>
Date: 4 May 88 03:10:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: ists.197
Posted: Tue May  3 23:10:28 1988
References: <9209@cisunx.UUCP> <162@falkor.UUCP>
Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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In article <162@falkor.UUCP>, heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes:
> Well, I never thought I'd see the day.  Wow, what a treat!  A uuencoded
> Ultrix a.out file!  No, it will not run on every Unix system.  It will
> run on a very small number of Unix systems.  Part of the reason why most
> Unix systems have a C compiler available is so that people can share
> SOURCE code and compile it for their own systems.  That is why there
> is no comp.binaries.unix or comp.unix.binaries newsgroup.


And besides, no Unix system admin in their right mind would let a binary
off the net onto their system.  It's one thing for viruses to trash peoples
PC disks, but *nobody* is going to get at my 1 gigabyte SMD drive.


Nobody!


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Mike Clarkson						mike@ists.UUCP
Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science		mike@ists.yorku.ca
York University, North York, Ontario,
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