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Subject: Executioner
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Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 20:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 20:40:00 1987
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I agree entirely with your message about posting large program files.
That's the very reason why I do not intend to post the Chameleon (70K)
but will send it to anyone who asks (so far 3 requests).

There is a problem posting Executioner's 6-byte encryption (I tried it
once so I've first hand experience).  The program starts each encrypted
line with a period ('.').  That confuses some mailer machines into thinking
they are instructions of some kind (since mailer uses a period to identify
command lines in routing).  When I encrypted a program, the lines starting
with a period were "echoed" (duplicated without the period) to all bitnet
users and apparently, (from mail I received) a number of others as well.

You posted the Executioner source, and you presumably have Merlin (I
don't).  Possibly you could compile a version that uses, say a '+' as
a leadin character for encrypted lines?

The 4-byte encryption doesn't cause the problem, but it's not as compact.