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[Barry Margolin]

In article <4011 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Any objections to using (in csh):
>	alias finger '/usr/bin/finger \!* | cat -v'
>to eliminate the non-printingness of ^E and the like?
>				  "Or am I missing something?"

OK, what about reading mail?  Or printing random files with "cat"?  My
point is that there are a large number of programs that print files
you didn't create to your terminal.  Any such program that doesn't
filter its output can be used to transmit a trojan horse.


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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