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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Self-Extracting Binaries dangerous? (Was: REXXShip: Self-Extracting UUEncode!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.151847.10060@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <dank.715798089@blacks> <1992Sep6.175645.24543@midway.uchicago.edu> <DENS.92Sep8074930@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:18:47 GMT
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- In article <DENS.92Sep8074930@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu> dens@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu (Dennis Allen Schmitz) writes:
- > Incidently, a much more efficient version of REXXShip is awaiting just
- > a few finishing touches. It uses a modified XXEncoding type scheme so
- > that the binary file only grows by about four thirds (plus overhead)
- > instead of double after encoding.
- > Also, the REXXShip format does not preclude the use of a standalone
- > decoder. Time permitting I'll be writing a standalone decoder (for
- > reasons of speed), so people will have flexibility.
- >It seems to me that since you are using the xxencode scheme, you could
- >make it compatible enough that the file would actually BE an xxencoded
- >file with stuff at the beginning and the end. This way could feed it
- >to regular xxdecode program (one presumably smart enough to strip
- >headers and trailers.
-
- It would be terrific, but, unless I'm mistaken, I'm forced to use
- QUEUE statements, which prevents true xx-compatibility. If anyone has
- any ideas on this, I'll be glad to do it for the next release.
-
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