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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Re: Sez, self-extracting zoo system 2.30
Message-ID: <17560004@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 88 18:14:04 GMT
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Re: sez and self-extraction

I have a major problem with self-extracting files: TROJANS.
How does one ensure that a file purporting to be a self-extracting
archive isn't really some type of vandalistic program?

Can you supply an additional utility (or function within ZOO) that will
extract files from a zoo archive, even one that is in SEZ format?
In this way, the existing SEZ overhead can remain small, but all the contents
of the SEZ file can be manipulated as if it were a pure ZOO archive.

If this utility were available, I wouldn't have to trust blindly some
stranger who tells me "just run the program".  Obviously, some strangers
are worth trusting, but not all!