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From: swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: .ZIP Ansi codes
Message-ID: <12630014@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 89 13:26:21 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12500295852.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Re: "trojan" comments

This warning is not limited to ZIP files.  ANY "readme" type of file
has this potential to undo your machine.

Beware of any instruction that says:  "...to display the latest update to the
program just enter TYPE README at the DOS prompt".  It is safer to browse
the file via an editor that presumably will filter out the escape sequences
before presenting them to the screen.

Sigh!  Whatever happened to old-fashioned innocence?