Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!omen!caf From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SQUASHED! Message-ID: <565@omen.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 06:07:07 EDT Article-I.D.: omen.565 Posted: Sat Jul 11 06:07:07 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 15:50:21 EDT References: <10710@clyde.ATT.COM> <206900054@mirror> Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon Lines: 10 In article <206900054@mirror> jvc@mirror.UUCP writes: :Why would you want to decode MS/PC-DOS *binaries* on a non-MS/PC-DOS :machine??? Because .ARC files contain more than binaries, for openers. With executables, I often wish to look at them on the Xenix system for Trojan Horses, Copyright notices, etc. Sometime RSN VP/ix or whatever this year's name for DOS partition under Xenix will appear, but the problem will still apply to most Unix systems.