Re: [SLUG] Rodos, one to add to your list...

["Andrew Reilly" <areilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:33:50AM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 'begin' is used for uuencoded attachments on usenet (and in email), so
> maybe (as Outhouse Explodes is a (i say cautiously) newsreader as well)
> this is part of it's proactive usability in identifying and decoding
> attachments for the users convenience.
> 
> though how it's going to set the permissions of the file to a string is
> beyond me.  oh hell, it's windows, what permissions?! :)

I'll lay long odds that it's not trying to set the permissions
to a string, but to "".  What's the bet that the regexp that is
finding that begin is something like: '^begin \(.*\) \([^ ].*\)$'.
Of course, someone being careful would have used something more like:
'^begin \([0-7][0-7][0-7]\) \(.*\)$'

-- 
Andrew