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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.pc
Subject: safe S-EX, Eh? (Self-EXtracting Archives)
Message-ID: <1990Jan6.201238.10701@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 6 Jan 90 20:12:38 GMT
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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I am surprised that there has not been a discussion of the implications
of distributing software in self-extracting archives.  I do this myself,
but the potential for abuse is enormous.  A special concern is with the
LHARC archives, whch have tha ability (at least on the PC) to run a
batch file after extraction.  On the other hand, LHARC archives can be
read with LHARC, whereas ZOO archives ghenerated with SEZ cannot be
read, only extracted, so far as I know.

Any suggestions on how to make the use of the self-extracting archives safe?
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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