Beyond shar (Re: shars and security concerns.)

Rich Salz rsalz at bbn.com
Tue May 8 01:43:35 AEST 1990


In <--830L1ggpc2 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why not just switch to something that was (once upon a time, anyway) common,
>...  The Software Tools archive format.
It doesn't protect against leading characters that can cause problems, like
	[SPACE] . ~

/r$
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