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From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp2 and TBAV
Date:	Fri, 25 Aug 1995 17:36:23 CDT
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> yeah, but a lot of bbss use tbav as a heuristics scanner for incoming 
> uploads, so if djgpp2 programs always fail it, they will always be 
> rejected, so programmers using djgpp2 might have a hard time distributing 
> their programs through bbss.

If someone posts what the bug in TBAV is, maybe an alternate way of linking
can workaround the bug.  There is nothing virus-like in the stub to trigger
such a warning.  The source is available for the stub, so someone with this 
buggy scanner needs to find out what it doesn't like.

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