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From: sterten AT aol DOT com (Sterten)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: 07 Feb 2004 07:34:37 GMT
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Subject: Re: attaching source code to the ececutable
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"Sterten" <sterten AT aol DOT com> wrote:
 >
 >> it can't fail, since just using the -E switch is one possibility.
 >> also ,just attaching the main source-file is still better than
 >> attaching nothing. You can't argue, that a thing is useless just
 >> because it can only be verified in parts.
 >
 >Many anti-virus programs 

tell me one. I never observed this so far (using f-prot)

 >would trigger this as suspicious and
 >quarantine the whole .exe. Some/most users would freak out and delete
 >your program and never trust anything that comes from you again.
 >I'd say that's a major fault.

that would be a fault, although in first place a fault of the
anti-virus program. Why should some text attached to an .exe
be any indication for a virus infection ?