Path: utzoo!attcan2!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!denbeste From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Possible Executioner replacement... Message-ID: <2345@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 20:34:50 GMT References: <8805311708.aa19483@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 23 From article <8805311708.aa19483@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>, by JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook): > Give some consideration to whether you could design the BINSCII files > so that they could unpack themselves (as EXECUTIONER files can do). > That sounds like a good challenge for a bright student :-) But, as the current virus scare has pointed out, it is better not to use self unpackers, since you are then creating a perfect chance for someone to do something unexpected to your machine. Unix folks use SHAR archives to to transfer files. Every once in a while, someone will make one that automatically invokes the compiler, and installs the program. This tends to bother people, as they usually want to look things over before giving any CPU time up. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William C. DenBesten | denbeste@bgsu.edu Dept of Computer Science | CSNET denbeste%andy.bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net Bowling Green State University| UUCP ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bgsuvax!denbeste Bowling Green, OH 43403-0214 | ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------- There is no difference between theory and practice in theory, but there is often a great deal of difference between theory and practice in practice.