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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats
Summary: I prefer the leading X for security reasons
Message-ID: <851@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 88 20:13:39 GMT
References: <868@fig.bbn.com>
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Lines: 19

In article <868@fig.bbn.com>, rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
} The shar stuff I just released only puts out the leading 'X' when
} the first character is a non-alphabetic.  I decided to do this to
} ...
} Which do people prefer?  Putting X only where needed seems esthetically
} pure (i.e., Gilmore's "Just the files, ma'am" quote from some time ago),
} and can save space.  Putting a leading X all the time means things like
} RN's [TAB] work nicely, and supposedly makes things easier on some
} ...

I like to preview the commands a shell script is going to execute,
and "grep -v ^X" works nicely if all the included files' lines start
with X.

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Bob Weissman
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