shars

[Brandon Allbery]

Expires:

Quoted from <1617 at wucs.UUCP> ["Re: Beware of Blindly Un-SHARing a File"], by tp at wucs.UUCP...
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|    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).
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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
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