Protecting against downloads

[Frank I. Reiter]

In article <1990Sep25.122420.9231 at ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan at ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) writes:
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>I agree that it is actually a feature.  Its a pain when you need to
>actually take the shell escapes out, but thats true of every editor when
>you haven't got the source.  Look at emacs.  How would you restrict that
>if you didn't have the source?  (how could you restrict emacs anyway???)
>Its not a bug.  Its a feature.

Pity there isn't a simple -R (restricted) flag that could be given on the 
command line.  This could prevent shell escapes, and perhaps prevent reading
or writing files outside of the current directory.


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