From:	Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro a Go-Go !!
Date:	28 May 2000 00:29:14 -0700
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RadSurfer <Radsmail AT juno DOT com> writes:

> Anyone wishing to see my VERY FIRST
> Allegro 3.12 project (after only 1 week of
> using Allegro) may download the actual EXE
> from:
> 
> http://members.tripod.com/~RadSurfer/PICPUZ.EXE
> 
> NOTE: this is NOT compressed but the actual
>       EXE as produced by the GCC compiler!
> 
> No source code is offered at this time!

IMHO it's not very polite to offer an exe like this without source.
No offense, but we have no (easy) way of knowing whether this program
does in fact create pretty pictures, or whether it has some evil
disk-formatting code inside.  Sourceless exe's are dangerous things,
especially when you don't know the people they come from.

N.B.  A cursory disassembly of the binary in question shows nothing
suspicious, and I'm sure everything is above board.  Just a friendly
piece of net etiquette / safety. 

-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge AT hmc DOT edu

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