[Info-vax] Saving data

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-04-30 18:23, JF Mezei wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
>> directory!!)  They would not install ZIP back when this was an active
>> machine for reasons I have stated here repeatedly not just in this thread
>> but often over the last 20 years.  They certainly would not consider
>> installing anything now.
>
>
> Just FTP the executable to your own directory, define a symbol and use
> it. You don,t have to tell anyone about it. And we won't call your boss
> to report you :-)

If the boss really have an opinion about people having runnable programs 
in their directories, then I'd be atleast a little surprised.

> Once you're done, rename the ZIP.EXE to "Obama.JPG" and they won't
> suspect anything. If you need it again, just rename it back to zip.exe.
> (actually, I am not even sure you need to do that).

You don't. There is nothing forcing a executable to be named 
something.EXE, it's just that if it's called something.EXE, you don't 
actually have to type the .EXE to the RUN command.

	Johnny

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