Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Why "shar: Shell Archive (v1.22)" is bad Message-ID: <521@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 13:40:30 GMT References: <14502@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <4155@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <1989Sep25.195540.18104@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 19 In article <1989Sep25.195540.18104@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes: | code. Using a UNIX shell is not satisfactory IF the operations | cannot be conveniently done by a relatively simple program. | This is so people who don't use UNIX can use these files. Binary | files should be clearly distinguished from text files. We're talking about comp.sources.unix. Making a compromise in error checking to allow non-unix people to use unix sources isn't a really good idea. Since every one using unix has /bin/sh it's the unpacker of choice. The paranoid can use a chroot script to prevent possible side effects. Unpackers are nice, useful, etc, but everybody doesn't have one, so common sense dictates that we use something you have. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon