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Date:	Fri, 14 May 1999 16:44:02 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
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In-reply-to:	<19990514202133.14669.rocketmail@web116.yahoomail.com> (message
	from Earnie Boyd on Fri, 14 May 1999 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT))
Subject:	Re: YIKES user.exe stupidity.
References:	<19990514202133 DOT 14669 DOT rocketmail AT web116 DOT yahoomail DOT com>

> Some nice netizen downloaded user.exe and managed to overlay his
> system32/user.exe with it.  See the recent user archives for details.

Yowza!  We should have thought of that earlier.  Imaging how many more
Linux machines there'd be ;-)

> Here's the obvious suggestion, rename user.exe to usertools.exe without delay.

Done!  At least, when the ftp mirrors update themselves.

I added a user.exe.README that explains what happened.

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