Xref: utzoo news.admin:4093 news.sysadmin:1703 comp.mail.uucp:2372 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet! Keywords: "it's a secret ... but they told me!" -- david dobkin Message-ID: <2309@ficc.uu.net> Date: 28 Nov 88 13:07:31 GMT References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <117@hudson.Morgan.COM> <800@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <624@pcrat.UUCP> Organization: SCADA Lines: 23 In article <624@pcrat.UUCP>, rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: > In article <2301@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >The referenced article suggested switching from shar to some more portable > >format. > >Might I suggest the Software Tools Group's text archive format? It's designed > IF a new format is being proposed as a standard, please > make sure that it can easily handle the odd bits of binary > stuff that are needed by many programs. UUencode them before adding them to the archive. Write a program that wraps around 'ar' and does this... you know, a tools-based approach. > Also, the format should allow browsing at least the first > few files without having to unpack it. The software tools format gives you this... it's purely textual. It's very easy to crack open, too. For example, "grep '^-h-'" gives you an index. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Ferranti International Controls Corporation "Have you hugged U your wolf today?" uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter Disclaimer: My typos are my own damn business. peter@ficc.uu.net