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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Virus warning
Message-ID: <13534@ncoast.ORG>
Date: 7 Apr 89 00:53:45 GMT
References: <373@nbires.nbi.com> <9948@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4251@alvin.mcnc.org>
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As quoted from <4251@alvin.mcnc.org> by felstein@mcnc.org (Bruce M. Felstein):
+---------------
| The supposed bugs in ARCMASTER version 4xx and higher do not exist. If
| people would bother to read the doc files they would have learned that
| the directory that you specify for it to use to unarc and arc files to 
| MUST be a special blank directory, since it will erase the entire contents
+---------------

Bogus design.  Why doesn't it either (a) create a scratch directory for its
own use or (b) make sure the directory is empty before running (that can
even be done from a batch file:  IF EXIST %1\*.* GOTO BADDIR)?

I suggest that people who use ARCMASTER use a wrapper script which does one
of the above, as a sanity check.

++Brandon
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