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Started by Larry Phillips
Wed, 02 Jan 1991 02:56
Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
Author: Larry Phillips
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 02:56
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 02:56
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In <7434@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >I've had people mucking around with my system screw me over with that >before. You know, someone comes over and wants to run HAMGIF or whatever >and starts mucking about with C:. Last time they managed to remove >setpatch, then claim it was all due to a bug in 2.0 that setpatch >disappeared. Right, and the same bug made nushow and hamgif materialise >in C:? > >NEVER stick anything in C: that's not part of the distribution. It's just >asking for trouble. Directory "c:" on Wednesday 02-Jan-91 [ much deleted ] 508 files - 4 directories - 19696 blocks - 9625879 bytes I NEVER let anyone mess with my C: directory. Not even by remote control, via scripts. :-) -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
Author: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 12:49
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 12:49
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In article <2450@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: > >NEVER stick anything in C: that's not part of the distribution. It's just > >asking for trouble. [Larry lists his C:] > 508 files - 4 directories - 19696 blocks - 9625879 bytes OK, why? What's wrong with path:? > I NEVER let anyone mess with my C: directory. Not even by remote control, > via scripts. :-) You obviously don't have people coming over while you're at work, when your wife doesn't now enough about the machine to keep an eye on them. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
Author: Robert I. Eachus
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 20:13
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 20:13
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Sheer self protection everyone: part of my startup-sequence
at work and at home (where ALL I have to worry about is my kids) is to
assign C: to RAM: and set my search path to include the (protected) C
directory on my hard disk. I also have aliases for cd, makedir,
protect, and delete with the originals squirreled off so that scripts
and such which use these commands either get the bowdlerized versions
or don't work. (I have to include cd, which is a pain, so that plain
"cd :C" or some such nasty doesn't get around the other safeguards.
But better safe than sorry.) For obvious reasons, I'm not going to
include my workarounds in this newsgroup, but they have allowed me to
survive "Click here to Install" toys without having to read them.
--
Robert I. Eachus
When the dictators are ready to make war upon us, they will not
wait for an act of war on our part." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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