Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:00:56 +0200, Michelle Konzack
<linux.mailinglists@freenet.de> wrote:

>Hello, 
>
>Am 17:44 2002-11-15 +0000 hat Pigeon geschrieben:
>>
>>On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:05:11 +0000, Glyn Kennington
>><glyn.kennington@hertford.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>couldn't run tar & gzip, I had to unpack it with WinZip on my Windoze
>                                                  ^^^^^^
>                                                  ||||||
>
>Grrrr, - what about: 
>
>WinZIP -> Options -> Configuration... -> right side of the Dialogbox -> 
>
>Checkbox -> TAR File Smart CR/LF Conversion 
>
>Good Luck
>
>Michelle
>

WHEEEEEE - THANKS! And I never knew it was there... talk about RTFM

I still consider WinZip to be broken for having this option enabled by
default: an archiver shouldn't mung things unless specifically
instructed to.

Vielen Dank dafur

Pigeon