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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: safe S-EX, Eh? (Self-EXtracting Archives)
Keywords: ICE not safe?
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Date: 9 Jan 90 14:50:31 GMT
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In article <511131@nstar.UUCP>, larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
|>The current LHARC is called ICE and I extract files several times a week
|>from SFX files.

Isn't ICE just a version that someone modified the source to use the
extension ICE? I remember in BBS world there was a lot of commotion
when ICE first started showing up that it may contain a Trojan Horse
or something, but someone disassembled it and found that only the
extension had been changed (the README file as well). Anyway, can
someone on Compuserve tell us what the latest LHARC (PC Magazine's
best of the year winner) is. Personally, I only use it for
self-extracting archives because of its low overhead; I'd use it for
general use except for its lack of exceptance in the BBS world.

					Ron

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