Guillory@farwest.FidoNet.Org (05/23/91)
kuhnle@ait.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Volkmar Kuhnle) writes: >But over the months al lot of new viruses (and strains of existing ones) >have been uncovered, so that VIRUSSUM.DOC grew in size. Since the >current version is about more than 500 K in length, is is getting >harder and harder to find informations about a special virus in >a file of this size, since I have to use a normal editor. > >I came to the conclusion that an ASCII file is not appropriate for the >distribution of so much data. Therefore I would suggest to supply >future versions as DBF files (dbase format). Other people may have beaten this to death but I propose that Patricia Hoffman change her VIRUSSUM.DOC to something similar to PC Virus Index (PCVI305.zip) by Dan McCool and Brian Clough. This file comes with an executable portion and separate datafiles for each virus. This is a well written program that is easy to use.
vhc@Abacus.hgs.se (Mikael Larsson) (05/29/91)
Posting this message from a friend that will soon get an own account! ***** > From: Guillory@farwest.FidoNet.Org > > Other people may have beaten this to death but I propose that Patricia > Hoffman change her VIRUSSUM.DOC to something similar to PC Virus Index > (PCVI305.zip) by Dan McCool and Brian Clough. This file comes with an > executable portion and separate datafiles for each virus. > This is a well written program that is easy to use. I disagree with this because that means that You can only access the database on a given computer platform. The VIRUSSUM.DOC should remain in pure ASCII given the benefits of being able to read it from whatever machine your using. If the demand rises someone will write a program to access VIRUSSUM.DOC on any platform, just as I am currently doing for the PC:s with my VSUMBROW program. Regards /Jonny Bergdahl FidoNet: 2:204/503 VirNet : 9:463/101 BBS: +46-36-121323 Virus-L Digest => VirNet echogate Rgds, MiL Virus Help Centre Phone : +46-26 100518 Box 7018 Fax : +46-26 275720 S-81107 SANDVIKEN BBS : +46-26 275710 (HST) SWEDEN FidoNet : 2:205/204 VirNet : 9:461/101 SigNet : 27:5346/108 Email : vhc@abacus.hgs.se