Re: preflight.sh: please review <VirusChecked>

[Pascal Bourguignon]

> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:36:00 +0100
> From: "Philippe C.D. Robert" <phr@3dkit.org>
> 
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 06:36:46 +0100 (CET)
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
> > > Don't be afraid of the script. It doesn't write anything to your hard 
> > > disk.
> > 
> > Why should  we take your word?  Plain  wrong.  It does write  a lot of
> > temporary files on my hard disk!  If you lied in this second sentence,
> > perhaps you lied on the first and we should be very afraid of it!
> 
> Uhm ... I did not check the script in detail but I certainly know
> that this kind of  wording is not gentleman alike... I am sure that
> if indeed Lars' comments are not 100% accurate he did not mean to
> lie.

Perhaps my using the word 'lie' was a little strong.  I just wanted to
remind  that  care  should  be   taken  in  any  case  when  receiving
executables from the  Internet.  (One of the main  reasons open source
is needed in these times: somebody must read them).


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