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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
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Date: 2 Oct 88 18:43:57 GMT
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Peter da Silva  peter@sugar.uu.net  Writes:
:This might be true, but for the case of a virus it's the toughest. Unless
:you've made sort of breakthrough that allows a 68000 program to run on a Vax,
:8086-family machine, NS32032-family machine, Pr1me, Perkin-Elmer, Gould, Cray,
:and so on.
:
:Or else figure out a way to get someone to unwittingly customise your makefile
:and compile the virus. Say, by distributing it to alt.sources?

	No need to do that at all... one does not have to write the virus
in C.  There are a whole host of interpreted languages from the SH or CSH
to AWK, PEARL, LISP, and others that do not require recompilation.

				-Matt