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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!rice!news.rice.edu!dens
  2. From: dens@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Dennis Allen Schmitz)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
  4. Subject: Re: Self-Extracting Binaries dangerous? (Was: REXXShip: Self-Extracting UUEncode!)
  5. Message-ID: <DENS.92Sep8192745@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu>
  6. Date: 9 Sep 1992 01:27:45 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep6.175645.24543@midway.uchicago.edu>
  8.     <DENS.92Sep8074930@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu>
  9.     <1992Sep8.151847.10060@midway.uchicago.edu> <67843@hydra.gatech.EDU>
  10. Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
  11. Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
  12. Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
  13. Lines: 15
  14. In-Reply-To: gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 8 Sep 92 21:44:18 GMT
  15.  
  16. In article <67843@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (MCGAUGH,MICHAEL KENNETH) writes:
  17.  
  18.    >It would be terrific, but, unless I'm mistaken, I'm forced to use
  19.    >QUEUE statements, which prevents true xx-compatibility.  If anyone has
  20.    >any ideas on this, I'll be glad to do it for the next release.
  21.  
  22. How about inncluding the xxencoded file in a comment at the top of the
  23. file then having the file process itself with linein. Might even be
  24. faster than using queue.
  25.  
  26. Might also get speedup if can disable the process where the file gets
  27. 'compiled' into its EA's
  28.  
  29. Later,
  30. den
  31.