Path: utzoo!attcan2!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!acornrc!bob 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. -- Bob Weissman Internet: bob@acornrc.uucp UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | pyramid }!acornrc!bob Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov