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Article #26105Re: WARNING on FILETEST suite WARNING WARNING
From: Larry Campbell
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1988 19:32
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1988 19:32
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In article <225@unsvax.UUCP> tlhingan@unsvax.uucp (Eugene Tramaglino) writes:
<>I recently downloaded from comp.binaries.ibm.pc a set of programs
<>in Turbo Pascal 3.0 (Source and Executables and Docs) called
<>FILETEST.ARC in PKARC format. ... On running
<>FILEREAD.COM, FluShot3 sent a message that a "write to COMMAND.COM"
<>was being performed.
Give me a break! You said you had the SOURCES to this program!! Are your
eyes broken? Before wasting net bandwidth and perhaps needlessly alarming
hundreds of people, why don't you just take a look at the source and see
if there's a legitimate reason for what it's doing? And how about compiling
the source and comparing the result to the binaries that came with it?
--
Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!think!maynard!campbell From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WARNING on FILETEST suite WARNING WARNING Keywords: chicken little Message-ID: <1069@maynard.BSW.COM> Date: 2 Apr 88 19:32:18 GMT References: <225@unsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 16