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From: waters@dover.uucp (Mike Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DESCRIBE.TXT
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Date: 8 Nov 88 15:17:29 GMT
References: <NELSON.88Oct30195427@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <7377@dasys1.UUCP> <NELSON.88Nov2233024@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: waters@dover.UUCP (Mike Waters)
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In article <NELSON.88Nov2233024@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>
>   Any sysop dumb enough to cumulatively de-ARC one package after another
>   into the same directory rather than checking them out one at a time,
>   deserves whatever he gets.  
>How about "pkxarc *.arc *.dsc", which gives a real quick look at all of
>the archive files in the subdirectory?


 In addition, this practice leaves you open to all kinds of trojans and
viruses. Personally I *always* de-arc a new program onto a floppy with
the hard disk disabled (or something fakey there that detects attempts
to write - HARDWARE not software).

Its not foolproof, but lets not get the idea that last weeks Arpanet
virus (really a worm) couldn't happen on ANY machine or network. UNIX
just
happens to be very convenient.


-- 
Mike Waters                 (for your EDIFication)
Motorola SMART CAD Group - EDIF (ANSI/EIA std. 548) support
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