Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: safe S-EX, Eh? (Self-EXtracting Archives) Message-ID: <242@comcon.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 90 22:43:14 GMT References: <1990Jan6.201238.10701@cs.dal.ca> <1368@unocss..unl.edu> Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska Lines: 27 In article <1368@unocss..unl.edu>, ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) writes: > Hmmm... so far, I have been unsuccessful in getting LHARC v1.13 to read its > SFX'es ... it just keeps saying "no file," and I have no idea what that's > supposed to mean. Use 'lharc l filename.ext'... so if the SFX is wham.com, use 'lharc l wham.com' The '!' file in a sfx (if any) is called a telop file, and is displayed before a sfx is extracted. The real danger seems to be in imbedding ANSI sequences in a telop. LHarc 1.13 has a switch for the sfx's that prevents the AUTOLARC.BAT from being executed unless you tell it to, but the telop is merely extracted to the screen. I use ANSI.COM as my screen driver, and size the redefinition buffer to 0, so I need not worry about ANSI trickery. > I'm just waiting for someone to upload an uncompressed virial file and claim > it was an SFX. That would be trivial... need only to mimic the usual display accompanying a sfx disolving. (not nice... but trivial) -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |