allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (04/27/86)
Expires: Quoted from <1617@wucs.UUCP> ["Re: Beware of Blindly Un-SHARing a File"], by tp@wucs.UUCP... +--------------- | I've been waiting for someone else to say this... | | naughtiness in shar files is only the tip of the iceberg. The program | contained in the shar may do bad things... the makefile that builds the | program may do bad things... | | doesn't have to be anything malicious -- I see a lot of makefiles | that would install things where I wouldn't want them or would write over | something important or were just simply incorrect (a lot of the same can | be said for the shar files; a lot of authors don't seem to anticipate system | configurations different from their own). +--------------- I document any Makefile system-specific install paths; and my version of ``shar'' checks to see if the destination exists: if it does, it allows you to overwrite OR rename the to-be-unshar'ed file OR skip the file. --Brandon -- decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNET ncoast!tdi2!brandon (ncoast!tdi2!root for business) 6615 Center St. #A1-105, Mentor, OH 44060-4101 Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 MCI MAIL BALLBERY (part-time) PC UNIX/UNIX PC - which do you like best? See <1129@ncoast.UUCP> in net.unix.