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What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

Started byFarley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks>
First post2025-09-13 12:57 +0000
Last post2025-09-14 13:18 +0000
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  What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-09-13 12:57 +0000
    Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-09-13 13:23 +0000
    Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Jacek Marcin Jaworski <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-09-13 15:28 +0200
      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-13 22:00 +0000
        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-09-14 08:26 +1000
          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-13 23:04 +0000
          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-14 09:01 +0100
            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-14 21:17 +0000
            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-15 02:13 +0200
              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-09-15 00:50 +0000
                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-15 12:38 +0200
              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-09-15 09:52 +0200
                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-15 08:19 +0000
                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-09-15 10:49 +0200
                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-15 09:03 +0000
                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-09-15 12:04 +0200
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-15 22:29 +0000
                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-09-16 08:23 +0200
                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-16 08:53 +0100
                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-16 12:54 +0200
                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-16 20:07 +0100
                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-16 21:42 +0200
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-16 22:12 +0100
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-09-17 06:52 +0200
                                      E-mail server-side attachment deduplication (was: Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-17 12:02 +0100
                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-09-17 06:52 +0200
                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-15 12:44 +0200
                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-15 22:35 +0000
                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-16 02:09 +0200
                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-16 01:12 +0000
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-09-16 05:47 +0200
                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-16 05:48 +0000
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-16 12:57 +0200
                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-17 05:56 +0000
                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-17 11:15 +0200
                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-17 09:31 +0000
              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-15 10:01 +0100
                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-09-15 12:06 +0200
                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-15 13:13 +0200
              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-11 23:38 +0000
                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-12 02:59 +0100
                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 03:23 +0000
                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-14 14:18 +0100
                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-14 19:43 +0000
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-14 22:20 +0100
                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-12 05:11 +0000
                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-12 06:29 +0000
                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-12 06:46 +0000
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-12 14:14 +0000
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-13 02:06 +0000
                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-13 02:14 +0000
                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-13 11:01 +0000
                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-13 13:39 +0000
                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-14 14:20 +0100
                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-15 20:50 +0000
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-15 22:08 +0100
                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-16 05:40 +0000
                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-16 11:05 +0000
                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-17 01:33 +0100
                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-20 22:23 +0000
                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-20 14:59 -0800
                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-20 23:54 +0000
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-21 00:44 +0000
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-21 14:33 -0800
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-11-22 00:16 +0000
                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-22 00:20 +0000
                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-22 03:20 +0000
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-11-22 14:17 +0000
                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-22 14:39 +0000
                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-22 20:08 +0000
                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? tom nossen <news@nossen.org> - 2025-11-26 22:07 +0100
                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-26 21:50 +0000
                                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? tom nossen <news@nossen.org> - 2025-11-27 12:18 +0100
                                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-27 21:26 +0000
                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-11-22 18:56 +0000
                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 09:06 -0800
                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 12:10 -0500
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 09:29 -0800
                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-24 23:15 +0000
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 15:35 -0800
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-25 00:21 +0000
                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-23 03:19 +0000
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-23 05:20 +0000
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 09:26 -0800
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 18:27 +0000
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-24 23:23 +0000
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-02 20:13 +0000
                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-03 08:39 -0800
                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-03 19:42 +0100
                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-03 22:03 +0000
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-12-03 22:36 +0000
                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-04 03:05 +0000
                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-12-04 14:24 +0000
                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-04 14:35 +0000
                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-04 08:21 -0800
                                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-04 18:05 +0000
                                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-04 10:09 -0800
                                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-04 19:09 +0000
                                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-04 11:11 -0800
                                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-04 19:55 +0000
                                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-19 01:22 +0000
                                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-12-18 20:45 -0500
                                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-19 10:54 +0000
                                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-12-19 09:11 -0500
                                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-19 15:02 +0000
                                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-12-19 10:38 -0500
                                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-12-19 11:03 -0500
                                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-19 18:14 +0000
                                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-19 08:09 -0800
                                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-19 21:56 +0100
                                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-20 05:56 +0000
                                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-20 10:52 +0000
                                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-20 15:03 +0100
                                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-20 14:50 +0000
                                                                    Ozempic (and Mounjaro, Zepbound, etc) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-12-20 15:04 +0000
                                                                      Re: Ozempic (and Mounjaro, Zepbound, etc) chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-12-20 17:21 -0600
                                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-20 20:45 +0000
                                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Sump <sumpusent@outlook.com> - 2025-12-20 22:02 +0000
                                                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-21 01:56 +0000
                                                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Sump <sumpusent@outlook.com> - 2025-12-21 02:10 +0000
                                                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-21 02:13 +0000
                                                                    Re: Big Pharma (was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-21 02:09 +0000
                                                                      Re: Big Pharma (was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Sump <sumpusent@outlook.com> - 2025-12-21 02:38 +0000
                                                                      Re: Big Pharma (was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-21 05:00 +0000
                                                                        Re: Big Pharma (was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-21 10:57 +0000
                                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-21 04:47 +0000
                                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-21 04:43 +0000
                                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-20 15:01 +0100
                                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-20 14:47 +0000
                                                                    Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-21 02:11 +0000
                                                                      Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-21 04:34 +0000
                                                                      Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2025-12-22 02:17 +0000
                                                                        Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-22 04:43 +0000
                                                                          Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2025-12-22 15:53 +0000
                                                                        Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-22 01:54 -0500
                                                                          Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2025-12-22 15:57 +0000
                                                                            Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-22 08:49 -0800
                                                                              Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-22 19:16 +0000
                                                                                Re: Marxist Healthcare (was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-22 21:24 +0000
                                                                              Re: Marxist Healthcare( was Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-22 19:47 +0000
                                                                              Re: Marxist Healthcare Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-23 11:02 +0000
                                                                                Re: Marxist Healthcare Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-23 11:38 -0800
                                                                                  Re: Marxist Healthcare The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-23 20:23 +0000
                                                                                    Re: Marxist Healthcare Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-23 22:41 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Marxist Healthcare The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-24 12:23 +0000
                                                                                Re: Marxist Healthcare rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-23 23:42 +0000
                                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-12-20 08:33 -0500
                                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-21 04:40 +0000
                                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-12-21 19:59 -0500
                                                                  Ozempic... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-26 22:24 +0100
                                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-04 22:47 +0000
                                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 00:15 +0000
                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-04 22:48 +0000
                                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 00:14 +0000
                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-04 22:47 +0000
                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 00:16 +0000
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-03 14:41 -0800
                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-04 03:05 +0000
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-12-07 04:01 +0000
                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-08 02:32 +0000
                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-12-08 04:36 +0000
                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-12-08 14:30 +0000
                                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-12-08 23:21 +0000
                                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-09 10:01 +0000
                                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-10 01:37 +0000
                                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-12-10 18:13 +0000
                                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-12-10 20:06 +0000
                                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-12 07:44 +0000
                                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-12-12 22:39 +1100
                                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 12:18 +0000
                                                    SYSCALL "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 14:01 +0100
                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-12-10 01:37 +0000
                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-20 23:01 +0000
                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-21 09:58 +0000
                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-23 03:19 +0000
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-23 05:21 +0000
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-23 19:01 +0000
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-23 23:23 +0000
                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-23 23:41 +0000
                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 00:39 +0000
                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-23 23:46 -0500
                                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 15:45 +0000
                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-24 20:59 +0100
                                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? ALB <alb@lupinedb.org> - 2025-11-25 19:38 -0500
                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-26 13:35 +0000
                                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-26 15:12 +0000
                                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-26 15:10 +0000
                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 15:14 +0100
                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-16 02:56 +0000
                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-16 05:40 +0000
                            Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 15:13 +0100
                              Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-20 22:23 +0000
                                Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-21 13:05 +0100
                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-21 15:35 +0000
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-23 03:19 +0000
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-23 05:16 +0000
                                        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-23 23:23 +0000
                                          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 00:33 +0000
                                  Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-23 03:19 +0000
                                    Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-23 22:05 +0100
                                      Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-24 02:24 +0000
        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-14 00:04 +0000
        Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-09-14 06:34 +0200
          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-09-14 06:48 +0200
          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-14 06:37 +0000
          Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-09-14 08:00 -0500
      Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-09-13 22:24 +0000
        Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-14 13:38 +0200
      Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-14 12:53 +0000
    Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-09-13 11:02 -0400
      Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-09-13 17:02 +0000
      Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-13 18:23 +0000
    Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-09-14 00:12 +0000
      Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-09-14 08:45 +0000
        Re: What Thinks Thou Of LO Donate Banner? "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-09-14 05:01 -0400
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#77893 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-11-25 00:21 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<mokb50FslmeU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#77885
On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:15:52 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:06:28 -0800, John Ames wrote:
> 
>> (It is a shame, though [about PowerShell]; with as much functionality
>> as it exposes and how smooth it makes interoperation of various Windows
>> components, it really *could* be tremendously useful. But it's such a
>> pain in the ass to figure out that I practically never bother.)
> 
> Could it be that, when it comes to command-line tools, even Microsoft
> are no longer “eating their own dog food” when it comes to PowerShell?
> Do their internal engineers prefer to adopt the much richer ecosystem
> already available in Linux, instead of going to the trouble of trying to
> build an entire parallel one from scratch for the Windows command line?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/install-powershell-on-linux?view=powershell-7.5

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#77834 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromGremlin <nobody@haph.org>
Date2025-11-23 03:19 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<XnsB39FE31DCFC2FHT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>
In reply to#77763
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> news:20251120145948.00000987@gmail.com 
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:59:48 GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:23:47 -0000 (UTC)
> Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:
> 
>> I never thought macro support was a good idea. MS disagreed and many 
>> corporations and end users used the technology. 
> 
> It's a good idea *on paper* (as an expansion of office-productivity
> features like mail-merge which have been around forever,) but the
> extent to which MS enabled it to hook into damn near everything not
> just in Office but the broader Win32 environment created a *plethora*
> of security issues that should really have been obvious to anybody who
> gave it fifteen minutes of consideration.

Which is why I didn't think it was a good idea. I should have provided 
more details and included the context you provided. :)

>> You can't depend on a files extension to actually be what the file is.
> 
> Once upon a time you could, in MS-land, but Win95 and Windows Explorer
> hopelessly muddied the waters on this in trying to make file-type
> handling semi-transparent :/

Hmm. I don't remember a time in MS days from DOS to Windows that the file 
extension could absolutely be trusted. Even under the days of DOS, the 
extension didn't really matter if you did this:
HITHERE.TXT for the example is really an .exe file. 

; Assume a command string "HITHERE.TXT" is in memory
; and a valid parameter block is also set up.

MOV AH, 4Bh       ; EXEC - Execute Program
MOV AL, 00h       ; Load and execute
MOV DX, OFFSET command_string ; DS:DX points to command string
MOV BX, OFFSET param_block    ; ES:BX points to parameter block
INT 21h

You couldn't type hithere.txt from a command prompt and it execute, sure. 
But, you could do something like the above in asm/another language of 
choice and it would, if it was an executable. Extension really didn't 
matter in that case.  It could have been anything. a .dat file, a .jpg etc. 
It's what's actually inside the file if you make a direct OS call that 
matters. You can save time by examining some of the files actual content 
to determine if you will have to do a full scan on it. If it starts with 
MZ for example, you should be scanning it - because that's a well known 
marker for an executable file. Just as an example. .com files were a 
little trickier because they didn't officially have a header.

Windows95 and above encouraged users to trust the file extension. That the 
extension was what the file really was. This resulted some in people being 
a little cheeky and having a bit of fun with it. such as openme.txt.exe. 
You'd see openme.txt and not the actual extension. So one double click for 
many users later and you might have had yourself a problem. In order to 
see the actual extension, you would have to turn hide extensions (the 
default setting) off.





-- 
Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent
Liar, lawyer; mirror for ya', what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned. He's guilty as the government

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#77839 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2025-11-23 05:20 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<10fu5ih$14jks$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#77834
On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 03:19:35 -0000 (UTC), Gremlin wrote:

> You couldn't type hithere.txt from a command prompt and it execute,
> sure. But, you could do something like the above in asm/another language
> of choice and it would, if it was an executable. Extension really didn't
> matter in that case.  It could have been anything. a .dat file, a .jpg
> etc.

On *nix systems, the extension doesn’t matter at all, but the file must 
have execute permissions.

> Windows95 and above encouraged users to trust the file extension.

What’s worse is hiding it and then using it as the basis for indicating 
what the file type is, in the file manager.

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#77875 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromJohn Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Date2025-11-24 09:26 -0800
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<20251124092600.00001815@gmail.com>
In reply to#77834
On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 03:19:35 -0000 (UTC)
Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:

> >> You can't depend on a files extension to actually be what the file
> >> is.  
> > 
> > Once upon a time you could, in MS-land, but Win95 and Windows
> > Explorer hopelessly muddied the waters on this in trying to make
> > file-type handling semi-transparent :/  
> 
> Hmm. I don't remember a time in MS days from DOS to Windows that the
> file extension could absolutely be trusted. Even under the days of
> DOS, the extension didn't really matter if you did this:
> HITHERE.TXT for the example is really an .exe file. 
> 
> ; Assume a command string "HITHERE.TXT" is in memory
> ; and a valid parameter block is also set up.
> 
> MOV AH, 4Bh       ; EXEC - Execute Program
> MOV AL, 00h       ; Load and execute
> MOV DX, OFFSET command_string ; DS:DX points to command string
> MOV BX, OFFSET param_block    ; ES:BX points to parameter block
> INT 21h
> 
> You couldn't type hithere.txt from a command prompt and it execute,
> sure. But, you could do something like the above in asm/another
> language of choice and it would, if it was an executable.

Interesting - I'm curious how common that actually was back in the day,
though? I don't recall a lot of DOS applications that I used chaining
from one EXE to another, unless you were really into launcher-menu type
utilities; most of what I remember was single EXEs for the main program
plus accessory EXEs for configuration (i.e. the inevitable SOUNDSET.EXE
and its ilk,) and transfer of control was usually mediated by a *.BAT
launcher script.

(Although if COMMAND.COM invokes that mechanism itself in interpreting
batch scripts, that'd certainly leave it vulnerable; no idea if that's
the case or not.)

> If it starts with MZ for example, you should be scanning it - because
> that's a well known marker for an executable file. Just as an
> example. .com files were a little trickier because they didn't
> officially have a header.

Yeah, it certainly doesn't hurt to sniff for a valid header if you're
already looking at the file.

> Windows95 and above encouraged users to trust the file extension.
> That the extension was what the file really was. This resulted some
> in people being a little cheeky and having a bit of fun with it. such
> as openme.txt.exe. You'd see openme.txt and not the actual extension.
> So one double click for many users later and you might have had
> yourself a problem. In order to see the actual extension, you would
> have to turn hide extensions (the default setting) off.

Yes - this was an absolute misfeature in Win9x, and one that was pretty
plainly a "look, we can *so* be MacOS!" on MS's part to boot. Caused no
*end* of shenanigans over the years, it has... :/

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#77877 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromBrock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
Date2025-11-24 18:27 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<6924a3a9$3$21$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
In reply to#77875
On Nov 24, 2025 at 10:26:00 AM MST, "John Ames" wrote
<20251124092600.00001815@gmail.com>:

>> Windows95 and above encouraged users to trust the file extension.
>> That the extension was what the file really was. This resulted some
>> in people being a little cheeky and having a bit of fun with it. such
>> as openme.txt.exe. You'd see openme.txt and not the actual extension.
>> So one double click for many users later and you might have had
>> yourself a problem. In order to see the actual extension, you would
>> have to turn hide extensions (the default setting) off.
> 
> Yes - this was an absolute misfeature in Win9x, and one that was pretty
> plainly a "look, we can *so* be MacOS!" on MS's part to boot. Caused no
> *end* of shenanigans over the years, it has... :/

Agreed: the hidden extension default in Windows was an absurd misfeature, and
likely trying to mimic Classic Mac OS's clean presentation.

Before that, though, Classic Mac used Type and Creator Codes (metadata) to
identify files. File extensions were not needed. When Apple moved Mac OS X, it
switched to using filename extensions as the standard, universally accepted
method for file identification as a way to be more compatible with Windows and
make it easier to share files in a mixed environment.

In short: Windows copied a Mac behavior, only later did Mac adopt the
Windows/UNIX standard, largely for better sharing.

-- 
It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.

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#77886 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2025-11-24 23:23 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<10g2pcs$2st2p$4@dont-email.me>
In reply to#77875
On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:26:00 -0800, John Ames wrote:

> (Although if COMMAND.COM invokes that mechanism itself in interpreting
> batch scripts, that'd certainly leave it vulnerable; no idea if that's
> the case or not.)

COMMAND.COM has/had a special status in CP/M and related single-tasking 
systems (like MS-DOS), since it’s the executable you’re running when 
you’re not running an executable.

I remember a description of how it worked in CP/M: to make more memory 
available for a program that the user wanted to run, the system would if 
necessary partially overwrite COMMAND.COM (all except a permanently-
resident core). Then when the program exited, the resident part of the 
command interpreter would do a checksum over itself, and if that failed to 
verify, it knew it had to reload the overwritten part of itself.

(I think it was a 16-bit checksum, so what are the odds that the 
overwriting data left the checksum unchanged, leading to COMMAND.COM 
believing it was still intact and promptly crashing? Me, I would have done 
something less clever and more reliable, like have a flag that the program 
loader could set to signal unambiguously to the command interpreter 
whether the overwriting had occurred or not.)

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#78200 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromGremlin <nobody@haph.org>
Date2025-12-02 20:13 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<XnsB3A99AD60239HT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>
In reply to#77875
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> news:20251124092600.00001815@gmail.com 
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:26:00 GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 03:19:35 -0000 (UTC)
> Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:
> 
>> >> You can't depend on a files extension to actually be what the file
>> >> is.  
>> > 
>> > Once upon a time you could, in MS-land, but Win95 and Windows
>> > Explorer hopelessly muddied the waters on this in trying to make
>> > file-type handling semi-transparent :/  
>> 
>> Hmm. I don't remember a time in MS days from DOS to Windows that the
>> file extension could absolutely be trusted. Even under the days of
>> DOS, the extension didn't really matter if you did this:
>> HITHERE.TXT for the example is really an .exe file. 
>> 
>> ; Assume a command string "HITHERE.TXT" is in memory
>> ; and a valid parameter block is also set up.
>> 
>> MOV AH, 4Bh       ; EXEC - Execute Program
>> MOV AL, 00h       ; Load and execute
>> MOV DX, OFFSET command_string ; DS:DX points to command string
>> MOV BX, OFFSET param_block    ; ES:BX points to parameter block
>> INT 21h
>> 
>> You couldn't type hithere.txt from a command prompt and it execute,
>> sure. But, you could do something like the above in asm/another
>> language of choice and it would, if it was an executable.
> 
> Interesting - I'm curious how common that actually was back in the day,
> though? I don't recall a lot of DOS applications that I used chaining
> from one EXE to another, unless you were really into launcher-menu type
> utilities; most of what I remember was single EXEs for the main program
> plus accessory EXEs for configuration (i.e. the inevitable SOUNDSET.EXE
> and its ilk,) and transfer of control was usually mediated by a *.BAT
> launcher script.

It was common enough to be known amongst every coder I knew. Some 
programmers too. Take some of the multi floppy install packages for example. 
Some decrypted the necessary materials as they built the primary file on 
your computer. The primary file wouldn't always have a proper executable 
extension, but, it was still actually an .EXE most of the time.

> (Although if COMMAND.COM invokes that mechanism itself in interpreting
> batch scripts, that'd certainly leave it vulnerable; no idea if that's
> the case or not.)

COMMAND.COM didn't invoke it.

>> If it starts with MZ for example, you should be scanning it - because
>> that's a well known marker for an executable file. Just as an
>> example. .com files were a little trickier because they didn't
>> officially have a header.
> 
> Yeah, it certainly doesn't hurt to sniff for a valid header if you're
> already looking at the file.

When you have a file of any real length but don't want to waste time full 
scanning if it's not an EXE based executable, a quick check is faster than 
processing a shitload more bytes. Even on old relics of yesteryear.

>> Windows95 and above encouraged users to trust the file extension.
>> That the extension was what the file really was. This resulted some
>> in people being a little cheeky and having a bit of fun with it. such
>> as openme.txt.exe. You'd see openme.txt and not the actual extension.
>> So one double click for many users later and you might have had
>> yourself a problem. In order to see the actual extension, you would
>> have to turn hide extensions (the default setting) off.
> 
> Yes - this was an absolute misfeature in Win9x, and one that was pretty
> plainly a "look, we can *so* be MacOS!" on MS's part to boot. Caused no
> *end* of shenanigans over the years, it has... :/

Agreed. It wasn't one of their best decisions...



-- 
Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent
Liar, lawyer; mirror for ya', what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned. He's guilty as the government

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#78241 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromJohn Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Date2025-12-03 08:39 -0800
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<20251203083900.00002c04@gmail.com>
In reply to#78200
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 20:13:15 -0000 (UTC)
Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:

> > Interesting - I'm curious how common that actually was back in the
> > day, though? I don't recall a lot of DOS applications that I used
> > chaining from one EXE to another, unless you were really into
> > launcher-menu type utilities; most of what I remember was single
> > EXEs for the main program plus accessory EXEs for configuration
> > (i.e. the inevitable SOUNDSET.EXE and its ilk,) and transfer of
> > control was usually mediated by a *.BAT launcher script.  
> 
> It was common enough to be known amongst every coder I knew. Some 
> programmers too. Take some of the multi floppy install packages for
> example. Some decrypted the necessary materials as they built the
> primary file on your computer. The primary file wouldn't always have
> a proper executable extension, but, it was still actually an .EXE
> most of the time.

Huh, I'm trying to model what an exploit would look like here - who &
what would be vulnerable to this? Obviously you *can* create a disk
file with a non-EXE extension & whatever contents you want, but under
what circumstances is another program gonna call the load-and-execute
routine on any arbitrary filename (other than, as mentioned, app-menu
utilities or command-shell alternatives?) Or if the game is to replace
one of an application suite's own I-can't-believe-it's-not-EXEs with a
Trojan, which developers bothered to mask their secondary EXEs under a
different extension, and why...?

(I mean, yes, installers might well build a final EXE from smaller
and/or compressed/encrypted chunks, but the *resulting* file would
normally still have an EXE extension, and be invoked the usual way.)

Not saying that it doesn't make sense to check files on a better-safe-
than-sorry heuristic, just trying to figure out how you'd get to the
point of pulling that kind of trick in the first place...

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#78246 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

From"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Date2025-12-03 19:42 +0100
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<ltc60mxdr1.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>
In reply to#78241
On 2025-12-03 17:39, John Ames wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 20:13:15 -0000 (UTC)
> Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Interesting - I'm curious how common that actually was back in the
>>> day, though? I don't recall a lot of DOS applications that I used
>>> chaining from one EXE to another, unless you were really into
>>> launcher-menu type utilities; most of what I remember was single
>>> EXEs for the main program plus accessory EXEs for configuration
>>> (i.e. the inevitable SOUNDSET.EXE and its ilk,) and transfer of
>>> control was usually mediated by a *.BAT launcher script.
>>
>> It was common enough to be known amongst every coder I knew. Some
>> programmers too. Take some of the multi floppy install packages for
>> example. Some decrypted the necessary materials as they built the
>> primary file on your computer. The primary file wouldn't always have
>> a proper executable extension, but, it was still actually an .EXE
>> most of the time.
> 
> Huh, I'm trying to model what an exploit would look like here - who &
> what would be vulnerable to this? Obviously you *can* create a disk
> file with a non-EXE extension & whatever contents you want, but under
> what circumstances is another program gonna call the load-and-execute
> routine on any arbitrary filename (other than, as mentioned, app-menu
> utilities or command-shell alternatives?) Or if the game is to replace
> one of an application suite's own I-can't-believe-it's-not-EXEs with a
> Trojan, which developers bothered to mask their secondary EXEs under a
> different extension, and why...?
> 
> (I mean, yes, installers might well build a final EXE from smaller
> and/or compressed/encrypted chunks, but the *resulting* file would
> normally still have an EXE extension, and be invoked the usual way.)
> 
> Not saying that it doesn't make sense to check files on a better-safe-
> than-sorry heuristic, just trying to figure out how you'd get to the
> point of pulling that kind of trick in the first place...

With mail software, it was common enough to try:

beautiful postcard.jpg..................exe

but this was a different trick. The other type I have not seen it.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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#78254 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromGremlin <nobody@haph.org>
Date2025-12-03 22:03 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<XnsB3AAAD7A1C510HT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>
In reply to#78241
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> news:20251203083900.00002c04@gmail.com 
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:39:00 GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 20:13:15 -0000 (UTC)
> Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:
> Huh, I'm trying to model what an exploit would look like here - who &
> what would be vulnerable to this? Obviously you *can* create a disk
> file with a non-EXE extension & whatever contents you want, but under
> what circumstances is another program gonna call the load-and-execute
> routine on any arbitrary filename (other than, as mentioned, app-menu
> utilities or command-shell alternatives?) Or if the game is to replace
> one of an application suite's own I-can't-believe-it's-not-EXEs with a
> Trojan, which developers bothered to mask their secondary EXEs under a
> different extension, and why...?

I wasn't writing about trojans using this? A trojan obviously could, but, 
that isn't what I was describing...

I was writing about some installers doing it. Just not using a .bat file 
to pass control but doing it themselves. They'd recombine pieces of the 
executable (a chunk on each floppy for example) and then pass control to 
the final resulting file which would be an .EXE, but not necessarily with 
that file extension. 

I suppose one could think of it as a very simple way to keep 'nosey' 
people out? If the program comes with an install.exe and some 1,2,3 etc 
files that turn into a .DAT file; you probably won't give it a second look. 
You assume that because it's a .DAT file that it cannot be directly 
executed- that the install.exe is doing all the work. And it's using the 
.DAT file for instructions/configuration/data, etc, not that the .DAT file 
is the next stage of the install process itself.

As for the trojan aspect you bring up, I did once use a .DLL file as a 
marker so that the program wouldn't access your email client for the 2nd 
time and email anyone again. The file wasn't really a .DLL though, but you 
wouldn't have been the wiser if you didn't actually examine it. It had a 
legitimate Windows name with proper date/time stamps that would trick you 
into thinking the file was as old as the rest of the common .DLLs on your 
machine - You wouldn't have known it was created that morning for example. 
Using DOS interrupts...

Here's a little code from the program I was writing about. It's primarily 
written in an ancient DOS based language called ASIC. v5 specifically.

rem ***Get/Set Date/Time stamps

get_fdt:
if file_handle>4 then
AX=&HEX5700
BX=FILE_HANDLE
INT86(&HEX21,AX,BX,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
NEWDATE=CX
NEWTIME=DX
endif
RETURN

set_fdt:
if file_handle>4 then
AX=&HEX5701
BX=FILE_HANDLE
CX=NEWDATE
DX=NEWTIME
INT86(&HEX21,AX,BX,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
endif
RETURN

And these are the interrupts to get the current attribute and null it and 
then put it back later...

rem ***Attribute get/set interrupts

get_attr:
AX = &HEX4300
DX = VARPTR(Filename$)
CX = NewAttr
INT86(&HEX21,AX,NA,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
return

set_attr:
AX = &HEX4301
DX = VARPTR(Filename$)
CX = NewAttr
INT86(&HEX21,AX,NA,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
return

You just set newattr=0 and make the call, tada; now it's a normal file 
suitable for read/write.

Save it beforehand with the get attr call, save the variable, call the set 
routine again when you're finished phucking around with it.

Which is what this subroutine did:

pre_open:
rem *** routine when called with getem=0 will
rem obtain the current file attributes, retain this
rem and reset the attribute to null for read/write.
rem If called with getem=1 it will restore the attribute
rem to what it was previously.
if getem=0 then
gosub get_attr:
oldattr=newattr
newattr=0
gosub set_attr:
else
newattr=oldattr
gosub set_attr:
endif
return

ASICs built in file I/O routines left much to be desired speed wise, and 
when you're moving 10k or more around, you want it done fast. You don't 
have time to phuck around going byte by byte. Nah, you allocate some 
memory and pull a chunk all at once with a single DOS interrupt call. 
Super fucking quick. Plus once it's in memory, you can do whatever needs 
to be done much faster than doing it with the file on disk. RAM is faster 
after all. then set the file pointer, dump the ram content right back - 
again super fucking quick. I was trying to explain this previously but it 
somehow got lost in translation I suppose. 

You'll have to ignore the comments, the 'engine' is c/p from a particular 
piece of self replicating code I wrote decades ago.

rem open_file chart!
rem ax=&hex3d00
rem read-only
rem ax=&hex3d01
rem write only
rem ax=&hex3d02
rem read/write

open_file:
rem See chart for access mode used.
AX=&HEX3D02
DX = VARPTR(Filename$)
INT86(&HEX21,AX,NA,na,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
file_handle=ax
return

write_file:
rem this routine will write selected bytes at whatever current position
rem from whatever buffer i choose into the file.
rem if the routine did not write all data ax will not equal cx upon
rem return from int call.
rem define dx register before calling this routine to point to the
rem memory address of the buffer area you want to write from. like so:
rem dx=varptr(buffer(0))
rem cx is how many bytes to write :)
if file_handle>4 then
ax=&hex4000
bx=file_handle
cx=bytesize
int86(&hex21,ax,bx,cx,dx,na,na,na,na,na)
byteswritten=ax
endif
return

read_file:
rem as the name implies, it reads bytes into a buffer. :-)
rem as with write_file, you need to predefine the dx register for the
rem buffer where you want the info stored. Like so: dx=varptr(buffer(0))
rem if you don't, this routine will not work, or will overwrite some
rem other section of memory. And for virus coding, this is very bad! :)
rem cx register is how many bytes to read :)
if file_handle>4 then
ax=&hex3f00
bx=file_handle
cx=bytesize
int86(&hex21,ax,bx,cx,dx,na,na,na,na,na)
bytesread=ax
endif
return

close_file:
rem Close the file handle. If the file handle is less then 4, then
rem this routine will simply exit.
if file_handle>4 then
ax=&hex3e00
bx=file_handle
int86(&hex21,ax,bx,na,na,na,na,na,na,na)
endif
return

Why muck around with byte for byte reads and writes when you can have the 
OS give you much bigger chunks at once right? It's assembler speed without 
actually doing it in asm. It's not slow. Which is why I said previously 
that you could save considerable time by doing a quick looksee at the file 
before you opted to scan the entire damn thing.

The only limit to how many bytes that could be read/written in one go was 
the size of your allocated memory. Using straight up interrupt calls, just 
like you would have in pure assembly is going to be faster than whatever 
file i/o functions your HLL language of choice had available to you. Your 
completely bypassing the fluff. The drawback is that you are entirely on 
your own if you go this route. You could for example, screwup and ask to 
read more bytes than you allocated memory for. If you do this, you will 
overwrite some other region of memory with the extra bytes. which usually 
leads to a crash scenario. But, if you're creative and understand how your 
executable is built, you can take advantage of that and instead of a crash 
cause code execution instead - those extra bytes are executable machine 
code that you intended to load this way. That's a sneaky, but very old, 
method of getting around hueristics that might check to see what you're 
doing. They assume it's a standard interrupt call to read bytes, not 
considering that you're also using it to jmp to another location in memory 
with additional code it doesn't presently see because that special code 
isn't already in your main program.



> Not saying that it doesn't make sense to check files on a better-safe-
> than-sorry heuristic, just trying to figure out how you'd get to the
> point of pulling that kind of trick in the first place...

It's not really a trick though. It was just using a DOS interrupt as 
intended. As I wrote initially, file extensions really don't tell you what 
the file actually is. They never did.


-- 
Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent
Liar, lawyer; mirror for ya', what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned. He's guilty as the government

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#78255 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromBrock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
Date2025-12-03 22:36 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<6930bb75$7$26$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
In reply to#78254
On Dec 3, 2025 at 3:03:12 PM MST, "Gremlin" wrote
<XnsB3AAAD7A1C510HT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>:

> John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> news:20251203083900.00002c04@gmail.com
> Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:39:00 GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 20:13:15 -0000 (UTC)
>> Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:
>> Huh, I'm trying to model what an exploit would look like here - who &
>> what would be vulnerable to this? Obviously you *can* create a disk
>> file with a non-EXE extension & whatever contents you want, but under
>> what circumstances is another program gonna call the load-and-execute
>> routine on any arbitrary filename (other than, as mentioned, app-menu
>> utilities or command-shell alternatives?) Or if the game is to replace
>> one of an application suite's own I-can't-believe-it's-not-EXEs with a
>> Trojan, which developers bothered to mask their secondary EXEs under a
>> different extension, and why...?
> 
> I wasn't writing about trojans using this? A trojan obviously could, but,
> that isn't what I was describing...
> 
> I was writing about some installers doing it. Just not using a .bat file
> to pass control but doing it themselves. They'd recombine pieces of the
> executable (a chunk on each floppy for example) and then pass control to
> the final resulting file which would be an .EXE, but not necessarily with
> that file extension.
> 
> I suppose one could think of it as a very simple way to keep 'nosey'
> people out? If the program comes with an install.exe and some 1,2,3 etc
> files that turn into a .DAT file; you probably won't give it a second look.
> You assume that because it's a .DAT file that it cannot be directly
> executed- that the install.exe is doing all the work. And it's using the
> .DAT file for instructions/configuration/data, etc, not that the .DAT file
> is the next stage of the install process itself.
> 
> As for the trojan aspect you bring up, I did once use a .DLL file as a
> marker so that the program wouldn't access your email client for the 2nd
> time and email anyone again. The file wasn't really a .DLL though, but you
> wouldn't have been the wiser if you didn't actually examine it. It had a
> legitimate Windows name with proper date/time stamps that would trick you
> into thinking the file was as old as the rest of the common .DLLs on your
> machine - You wouldn't have known it was created that morning for example.
> Using DOS interrupts...
> 
> Here's a little code from the program I was writing about. It's primarily
> written in an ancient DOS based language called ASIC. v5 specifically.
> 
> rem ***Get/Set Date/Time stamps
> 
> get_fdt:
> if file_handle>4 then
> AX=&HEX5700
> BX=FILE_HANDLE
> INT86(&HEX21,AX,BX,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
> NEWDATE=CX
> NEWTIME=DX
> endif
> RETURN
> 
> set_fdt:
> if file_handle>4 then
> AX=&HEX5701
> BX=FILE_HANDLE
> CX=NEWDATE
> DX=NEWTIME
> INT86(&HEX21,AX,BX,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
> endif
> RETURN
> 
> And these are the interrupts to get the current attribute and null it and
> then put it back later...
> 
> rem ***Attribute get/set interrupts
> 
> get_attr:
> AX = &HEX4300
> DX = VARPTR(Filename$)
> CX = NewAttr
> INT86(&HEX21,AX,NA,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
> return
> 
> set_attr:
> AX = &HEX4301
> DX = VARPTR(Filename$)
> CX = NewAttr
> INT86(&HEX21,AX,NA,CX,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
> return
> 
> You just set newattr=0 and make the call, tada; now it's a normal file
> suitable for read/write.
> 
> Save it beforehand with the get attr call, save the variable, call the set
> routine again when you're finished phucking around with it.
> 
> Which is what this subroutine did:
> 
> pre_open:
> rem *** routine when called with getem=0 will
> rem obtain the current file attributes, retain this
> rem and reset the attribute to null for read/write.
> rem If called with getem=1 it will restore the attribute
> rem to what it was previously.
> if getem=0 then
> gosub get_attr:
> oldattr=newattr
> newattr=0
> gosub set_attr:
> else
> newattr=oldattr
> gosub set_attr:
> endif
> return
> 
> ASICs built in file I/O routines left much to be desired speed wise, and
> when you're moving 10k or more around, you want it done fast. You don't
> have time to phuck around going byte by byte. Nah, you allocate some
> memory and pull a chunk all at once with a single DOS interrupt call.
> Super fucking quick. Plus once it's in memory, you can do whatever needs
> to be done much faster than doing it with the file on disk. RAM is faster
> after all. then set the file pointer, dump the ram content right back -
> again super fucking quick. I was trying to explain this previously but it
> somehow got lost in translation I suppose.
> 
> You'll have to ignore the comments, the 'engine' is c/p from a particular
> piece of self replicating code I wrote decades ago.
> 
> rem open_file chart!
> rem ax=&hex3d00
> rem read-only
> rem ax=&hex3d01
> rem write only
> rem ax=&hex3d02
> rem read/write
> 
> open_file:
> rem See chart for access mode used.
> AX=&HEX3D02
> DX = VARPTR(Filename$)
> INT86(&HEX21,AX,NA,na,DX,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA)
> file_handle=ax
> return
> 
> write_file:
> rem this routine will write selected bytes at whatever current position
> rem from whatever buffer i choose into the file.
> rem if the routine did not write all data ax will not equal cx upon
> rem return from int call.
> rem define dx register before calling this routine to point to the
> rem memory address of the buffer area you want to write from. like so:
> rem dx=varptr(buffer(0))
> rem cx is how many bytes to write :)
> if file_handle>4 then
> ax=&hex4000
> bx=file_handle
> cx=bytesize
> int86(&hex21,ax,bx,cx,dx,na,na,na,na,na)
> byteswritten=ax
> endif
> return
> 
> read_file:
> rem as the name implies, it reads bytes into a buffer. :-)
> rem as with write_file, you need to predefine the dx register for the
> rem buffer where you want the info stored. Like so: dx=varptr(buffer(0))
> rem if you don't, this routine will not work, or will overwrite some
> rem other section of memory. And for virus coding, this is very bad! :)
> rem cx register is how many bytes to read :)
> if file_handle>4 then
> ax=&hex3f00
> bx=file_handle
> cx=bytesize
> int86(&hex21,ax,bx,cx,dx,na,na,na,na,na)
> bytesread=ax
> endif
> return
> 
> close_file:
> rem Close the file handle. If the file handle is less then 4, then
> rem this routine will simply exit.
> if file_handle>4 then
> ax=&hex3e00
> bx=file_handle
> int86(&hex21,ax,bx,na,na,na,na,na,na,na)
> endif
> return
> 
> Why muck around with byte for byte reads and writes when you can have the
> OS give you much bigger chunks at once right? It's assembler speed without
> actually doing it in asm. It's not slow. Which is why I said previously
> that you could save considerable time by doing a quick looksee at the file
> before you opted to scan the entire damn thing.
> 
> The only limit to how many bytes that could be read/written in one go was
> the size of your allocated memory. Using straight up interrupt calls, just
> like you would have in pure assembly is going to be faster than whatever
> file i/o functions your HLL language of choice had available to you. Your
> completely bypassing the fluff. The drawback is that you are entirely on
> your own if you go this route. You could for example, screwup and ask to
> read more bytes than you allocated memory for. If you do this, you will
> overwrite some other region of memory with the extra bytes. which usually
> leads to a crash scenario. But, if you're creative and understand how your
> executable is built, you can take advantage of that and instead of a crash
> cause code execution instead - those extra bytes are executable machine
> code that you intended to load this way. That's a sneaky, but very old,
> method of getting around hueristics that might check to see what you're
> doing. They assume it's a standard interrupt call to read bytes, not
> considering that you're also using it to jmp to another location in memory
> with additional code it doesn't presently see because that special code
> isn't already in your main program.
> 
> 
> 
>> Not saying that it doesn't make sense to check files on a better-safe-
>> than-sorry heuristic, just trying to figure out how you'd get to the
>> point of pulling that kind of trick in the first place...
> 
> It's not really a trick though. It was just using a DOS interrupt as
> intended. As I wrote initially, file extensions really don't tell you what
> the file actually is. They never did.

Most of what you're describing is technically possible under DOS, but the way
you're framing it doesn’t match how real software of the era operated.

Yes, DOS will EXEC a file regardless of extension if the caller specifies it.
No, DOS installers were not commonly stitching together disguised EXE chunks
under .DAT files. That's an edge case at best.

Your interrupt calls seem legit, but "reading past a buffer to trigger
execution" is more movie-hacker than real-world practice; DOS viruses mostly
used explicit jumps, not accidental overreads.

Extensions mattered to the command shell even if EXEC didn't care. Saying
"extensions never meant anything" is just flat wrong.

So your technical notes are mostly fine, but the narrative around them is the
usual Gremlin embellishment —- stretching niche behavior into something
widespread or sophisticated.

-- 
It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.

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#78263 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromGremlin <nobody@haph.org>
Date2025-12-04 03:05 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<XnsB3AAE0B49172CHT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>
In reply to#78255
Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
news:6930bb75$7$26$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:36:37
GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote: 

> On Dec 3, 2025 at 3:03:12 PM MST, "Gremlin" wrote
> <XnsB3AAAD7A1C510HT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>:
> Most of what you're describing is technically possible under DOS, but
> the way you're framing it doesn’t match how real software of the era
> operated. 

All of what I described (buffer overrun specifically) works under DOS,
os/2warp, Windows, Linux and MacOS.  And it doesn't match software you
personally are aware of is what you should have written, if your intention
was to have an actual honest discussion concerning this. We both know
that's not your intention with your reply though. You are an end user. I
am a coder. There is a huge difference between the two. 

ChatGPT and the like can only help you get by to a point, Snit. It's not
going to be able to let you completely fake a technical discussion
concerning low level code with me though. Anymore so than it was useful
helping you and David Brooks gain entry into that encrypted .zip file. 
 
> Yes, DOS will EXEC a file regardless of extension if the caller
> specifies it. No, DOS installers were not commonly stitching together
> disguised EXE chunks under .DAT files. That's an edge case at best.

I was using the .DAT extension as an example. It's not an edge case,
either. I'm familiar with several packages from back in the day that used
that 'trick' (which is not a trick of any kind). Some authors didn't want
you snooping around too much with their programs, and little 'tricks' like
that kept end users like you far away. 

You probably aren't familiar with the internals of how zip2exe actually
worked, or the difference between the registered copy of pkwarez exe
compressor vs the unregistered one. It was a single byte that if toggled
provided you the 'protection' of the registered version. Protection in the
sense that pklite wouldn't decompress a file compressed with it if you
were using the registered version, OR, if you understood how it actually
worked and used the shareware version and changed a single byte yourself. 
The registered version also offered *slightly* better compression,
depending entirely on how your executable was constructed. Depending on
the language and compiler used, this could only be a few bytes though.
Hardly worth paying for. And, it wasn't worth paying for it to disable the
decompress option when changing a single byte worked just fine for that
purpose. 

Here's the source code to one of my first cracks. One byte changed, tada,
pklite won't decompress your file anymore using the -x parameter. 

a$=command$
a$=ltrim$(a$)
a$=rtrim$(a$)
print"PKEX: Prevents PKLITE from expanding .EXE files!"
print" "
open "r",1,a$
if error>0 then
print"Usage: PKEX <Filename.ext>"
beep
else
a=filepos(1,29)
a$=chr$(17)
print #1,a$ NONULL
close 1
print"File cannot be expanded by PKLITE"
end
endif

That's just simple ASIC code above. I'd typically write the crack in an
HLL, but the actual work to make the damn thing was done via disassembly.
Ie: reverse engineering. 

> Your interrupt calls seem legit, but "reading past a buffer to trigger
> execution" is more movie-hacker than real-world practice; DOS viruses
> mostly used explicit jumps, not accidental overreads.

Those calls are all legit. You can cross reference any of them with Ralph
Browns interrupt list. You really shouldn't rely on ChatGPT or any other
AI to participate in this discussion. It's piss easy to fool them.
Especially now that I know you're using AI to participate in the first
place. I've left a great example of that in this reply. Just to drive the
point home. 

byebye:
ax=&hexfa02
dx=&hex5945
bx=rofl
int86(&hex16,ax,bx,cx,dx,na,na,na,na,na)
code 
&hexb8,&hex02,&hexfe,&hexbe,&hex41,&hex4e,&hexbf,&hex55,&hex4e,&hexcd,&hex2f
return

code should be on the same line as the &hex material. My client wordwraps at 
78 characters and I can't be arsed to change it. <G>

Chatgpt can only let you fake knowledge you don't actually have upto a
point. Without the original label and my comments, ChatGPT has no idea
what that code does. 

I also took the time to feed it to googles gemini. Geminis results are
more useful from a technical breakdown, but, it doesn't know what's going
on either. When I fed it the original source code without any snipping of
my comments and using the original label, They were both mostly able to
tell me what the code was doing. 

These AIs are not as reliable as you seem to think they are, bud. They
both relied on my label and my comments - neither of them were able to
properly identify what the code is doing without them. These AI things do
not actually 'think' Snit. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow

If you actually comprehended what I wrote, you would have known that I was
describing a buffer overflow exploit. Since you didn't have a clue,
because you don't comprehend what you read well at all (sorry bud, but
this is well documented going back decades with you) that's why you relied
on AI and shared what it told you. Which isn't correct, btw. :) 

Since you assumed I was discussing viruses specifically though, I do know
of several viruses and worms from the late 80s and 90s that did use the
technique. The Morris worm (which is a subset of a computer virus) was the
earliest one I remember doing it. There were others, though. Just not as
popular due to them either being proof of concept or having other issues
which prevented their long term survival in the wild. 

There was nothing 'accidental' about those over reads. As I wrote
previously, it was intentional and required you to be very familiar with
the final executable structure of your program as it would be processed
internally - not necessarily on disk. .COM files execute as is on disk in
memory; what you see is what you get. .EXE files do not by default, but,
if properly crafted, they can as well. 

It's *very easy* due to the nature of the files internals and executable
layout to convert a .COM into an .EXE; it only requires a small header. I
actually demonstrated that little 'trick' years ago to Pooh who claimed he
was something he wasn't and like you, tried to talk out of turn. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow

It would benefit you greatly to read the contents of that URL.
Specifically for *comprehension* so that you don't expose the severe lack
of actual knowledge and understanding you have on the subject of writing
low level code. You really *don't know* what the fuck you're talking about
on this subject, Snit. 

> Extensions mattered to the command shell even if EXEC didn't care.
> Saying "extensions never meant anything" is just flat wrong.

It's not flat out wrong in the context I was explaining it, Snit.
Extensions are for end users like you who don't understand what's actually
going on with the machine sitting in front of you. Specifically, how and
why it does what it does. You should never rely on a files extension to
determine what that file actually is. Not if you take security seriously,
anyhow. AV gives people like you a very false sense of security. You think
you're safe and all is well because such and such AV scanned the file and
said it was 'ok' when it wasn't. 

As I've already shown, the extension is for the end user - it really
doesn't matter to a coder/decent programmer. Neither of which you are. You
cannot trust the extension. Which was the entire point of my sharing *one*
of the interrupts used to execute code. 

Btw, viruses did more than just jmp around; poly/oglymorphs for example.
That's a subject well beyond your understanding though, for certain. 


-- 
Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent
Liar, lawyer; mirror for ya', what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned. He's guilty as the government

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#78285 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromBrock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
Date2025-12-04 14:24 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<6931999a$6$21$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
In reply to#78263
On Dec 3, 2025 at 8:05:22 PM MST, "Gremlin" wrote
<XnsB3AAE0B49172CHT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>:

> Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
> news:6930bb75$7$26$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:36:37
> GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2025 at 3:03:12 PM MST, "Gremlin" wrote
>> <XnsB3AAAD7A1C510HT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>:
>> Most of what you're describing is technically possible under DOS, but
>> the way you're framing it doesn’t match how real software of the era
>> operated.
> 
> All of what I described (buffer overrun specifically) works under DOS,
> os/2warp, Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Nobody said otherwise. Seriously, not one person ever did. Certainly not me.

Please try to read for comprehension and not just attack. It would help you a
lot.

You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create. And you do so
out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to do better!


-- 
It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.

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#78286 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-04 14:35 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<10gs688$bvup$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78285
On 04/12/2025 14:24, Brock McNuggets wrote:
> You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create. And you do so
> out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to do better!

Clearly a Marxist.

-- 
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
  – Will Durant

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#78288 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromJohn Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Date2025-12-04 08:21 -0800
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<20251204082129.000038cc@gmail.com>
In reply to#78286
On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 14:35:52 +0000
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> > You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create.
> > And you do so out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to do
> > better!  
> 
> Clearly a Marxist.

The irony here is palpable.

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#78289 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-04 18:05 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<10gsigt$h31i$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78288
On 04/12/2025 16:21, John Ames wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 14:35:52 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create.
>>> And you do so out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to do
>>> better!
>>
>> Clearly a Marxist.
> 
> The irony here is palpable.
> 
I'm no Marxist chum
But the guy referred to here looks like one...


-- 
"And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch".

Gospel of St. Mathew 15:14

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#78290 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromJohn Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Date2025-12-04 10:09 -0800
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<20251204100958.00006bf4@gmail.com>
In reply to#78289
On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> >>> You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create.
> >>> And you do so out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to
> >>> do better!  
> >>
> >> Clearly a Marxist.  
> > 
> > The irony here is palpable.
> >   
> I'm no Marxist chum

No, but you *do* seem to be in need of a refresher on elementary set
theory, even if we take your opinion on Marxist rhetorical tendencies
as gospel.

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#78294 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-04 19:09 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<10gsm9a$k22r$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78290
On 04/12/2025 18:09, John Ames wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>>>> You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create.
>>>>> And you do so out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to
>>>>> do better!
>>>>
>>>> Clearly a Marxist.
>>>
>>> The irony here is palpable.
>>>    
>> I'm no Marxist chum
> 
> No, but you *do* seem to be in need of a refresher on elementary set
> theory, even if we take your opinion on Marxist rhetorical tendencies
> as gospel.
> 

I am afraid that one whooshed right over my head.

-- 
New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in 
the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in 
someone else's pocket.

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#78295 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromJohn Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Date2025-12-04 11:11 -0800
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<20251204111152.00006d1c@gmail.com>
In reply to#78294
On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 19:09:30 +0000
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> >>>>> You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create.
> >>>>> And you do so out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to
> >>>>> do better!  
> >>>>
> >>>> Clearly a Marxist.  
> >>>
> >>> The irony here is palpable.
> >>>      
> >> I'm no Marxist chum  
> > 
> > No, but you *do* seem to be in need of a refresher on elementary set
> > theory, even if we take your opinion on Marxist rhetorical
> > tendencies as gospel.
> 
> I am afraid that one whooshed right over my head.

Even if we take "members of group A exhibit property B" as a given,
that does not in itself mean that all entities exhibiting property B
are members of group A.

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#78299 — Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-04 19:55 +0000
SubjectRe: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?
Message-ID<10gsovs$k22r$7@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78295
On 04/12/2025 19:11, John Ames wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 19:09:30 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> You do this often -- argue against bizarre straw men you create.
>>>>>>> And you do so out of your own hatred and personal issues. Try to
>>>>>>> do better!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clearly a Marxist.
>>>>>
>>>>> The irony here is palpable.
>>>>>       
>>>> I'm no Marxist chum
>>>
>>> No, but you *do* seem to be in need of a refresher on elementary set
>>> theory, even if we take your opinion on Marxist rhetorical
>>> tendencies as gospel.
>>
>> I am afraid that one whooshed right over my head.
> 
> Even if we take "members of group A exhibit property B" as a given,
> that does not in itself mean that all entities exhibiting property B
> are members of group A.
> 
In general no, in this case, almost certainly.
Almost by definition


-- 
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the 
urge to rule it.”
– H. L. Mencken

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