Good afternoon, Kurth,
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, H. Kurth Bemis wrote:
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.
I've been accused of taking things too literally in the past.
*grin*
You're correct on both points. It also opens people back up to
running untrusted executables, which leads to botnets.
Cheers,
- Bill
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:
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