Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sungod!davidsen From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: .ZIP Ansi codes Message-ID: <739@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 12 Jun 89 18:35:57 GMT References: <12630014@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 16 In article <12630014@hpcupt1.HP.COM> swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes: | Re: "trojan" comments | | This warning is not limited to ZIP files. ANY "readme" type of file | has this potential to undo your machine. True. I recommend the following (using zoo as an example) when looking at the comments on an archive: zoo V newstuff > untested.tmp list untested.tmp Assuming that you use Buerg's list program for your lister. BTW: has a recent version been posted? bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me