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From: md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Donald Drown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Self Extracting Files (Re: PkaWare/PkaZip)
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Date: 11 Mar 90 22:23:10 GMT
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  After scanning through all the messages about how people will
never ever download something unless it has the source, or unless
they know the author, etc, I can understand why people are so 
afraid of viruses, and the like.  Believe or not people not everyone 
in the Amiga world is working on ways to erase your harddrive
and kill your dog.
  I can't possibly believe you people who run string comparision
tests on all their archives, and never run anything that resembles
something bad.  Hell, turn the machine on, boot the damn thing,
if it doesn't do what you want, turn the machine off, go get a drink,
come back and delete the archive.
  It sounds like many users, or maybe just the over anxious to post
users, have no trust in anything.  Learn to trust somethings, it's
a computer, you have control over it, not vice-versa.
  Personally I don't mind self extracting archives, but they aren't
needed on the amiga that much.  On the commodore 64 where
memory was very important, the self dissolving arc programs were
nice, you didn't have to spend 10 minutes loading a stupid little 
program to dissolve your program.
  Just my personal opinion.

-Matt Drown (md3b@andrew.cmu.edu)

-/ I even Download things without the source, and then run them /-