On 25/04/18 12:35, John Rumm wrote:
On 25/04/2018 01:08, wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:35:58 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 24/04/2018 13:35, Tim+ wrote:
John Rumm Wrote in message:
On 24/04/2018 08:59, T i m wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:11:14 -0700 (PDT), tabbypurr wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 00:47:44 UTC+1, John Rumm
wrote:
On 23/04/2018 22:52, Andrew Mawson wrote:

Happy to share the .STL - de-munge my address and email
me and I'll forward it to you

Perhaps we should host some of that kind of stuff on the
wiki?

not a bad idea

+1

Definitely a modern take on the d-i-y and helping each other
theme. ;-)

I will need to tweak the allowable file types for upload -
since mediawiki by default only allows a limited list of file
types.

What are the typical file extensions?

(or perhaps its easier to simply allow .zip and assume anything
will be zipped first)


A bad idea surely? Zipped files are used to conceal all sorts of
nefarious things.

On an open wiki sure... ours is writeable by account holders only
which limits the damage somewhat.

A zip file is inherently of unknown content/nature, so very much
something liable to make people paranoid.

Can't see why - just extracting the content poses no more risk than
downloading the individual files. Its what you do with the files next
that matters.

I think that the problem would be with self-extracting zip files. I know
that these "unzip" when you double-click on them, which in itself isn't
an issue. However, it is possible to run an installer at the same time.
This is from "Self-Extracting Zip Files for Software Installation" at
http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/182/ winzip webpage.

"When someone runs it, the self-extracting Zip file will use the TEMP or
TMP environment variable to create a temporary folder, unzip the files
into the folder, run the setup program, wait for it to complete, then
delete the temporary folder created in the first step."

Detailed info using a different package can be found he
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27904532/how-do-i-make-a-self-extract-and-running-installer/27905551#27905551

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Jeff