Bill - you're right. Though my point was more to the fact that using self-extracting .exe's is both annoying (potentially more steps to extract) and makes assumptions about the user's setup and capabilities, which in this age, is a recipe for usability-disaster.
~k On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 13:54 -0400, William Stearns wrote: > Good afternoon, all, > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, H. Kurth Bemis wrote: > > > Now if they would not use fscking self-extracting zip files then we'd be > > all set. > > I haven't tried this recently, but my best understanding is that > the standard zip utility will extract files from a self-extracting > executable. > Corrections welcome. :-) > > > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 13:30 -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote: > >> http://www.data.gov > > Cheers, > - Bill > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Ironically, DeCSS was published on the Web by a U.S. court (as > evidence) as a result of legal action against people who posted DeCSS on > the Web. Oops." > -- Sandy McMurray, [email protected] > http://canoe.ca/TechNews/column_readme.html > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Stearns ([email protected], tools and papers: www.stearns.org) > Top-notch computer security training at www.sans.org , www.giac.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
