Some senseless babbling from Murray Lesser to Roy J. Tellason
on 10-18-99  06:45 about UniMaint ???...

 ML> (Excerpts from a message dated 10-16-99, Roy J. Tellason to Bat Lang)

 ML> Hi Roy--
 
 BL> Recently down the filebone came a new version of UniMaint. 
 BL> Unfortunately, it was distributed as a  selfex archive. 
 BL> Since it is 2.4Mb+, and has very skimpy text material in the 
 BL> archive, there is no way to determine what I want to know, 
 BL> short of installing it 
 
 RT>I just *hate* it when they do that...

 ML> Why?  It saves a lot of trouble for those who haven't learned to
 ML> keep an Unzip utility at hand, and doesn't do any harm that I can
 ML> understand.  Its only drawback that I can see is that you cannot see
 ML> what is in the file unless you execute it.  Of course, not even this
 ML> is a drawback if you make it a practice never to download an
 ML> application that you don't know what it does.  At least, the likelihood
 ML> of an OS/2 virus being transmitted this way is exceedingly small.

I never just execute a self-extractor.  The first few bytes of the file
usually let on just what type of archive it is, and you can always use that
archiver utility to do a manual extraction (of the readme file, of course).

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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