Trojan horse FIX for Rnmail and Pnews

[Bruce Becker]

In article <1687 at mcgp1.UUCP> newsadm at mcgp1.UUCP (Netnews Administrator) writes:
>In article <6811 at rosevax.Rosemount.COM>, news at rosevax.Rosemount.COM (News administrator) writes:
>>                                               If anyone has a vi
>> that doesn't understand +set nomodeline[s], they should speak up.
>
>The AT&T 3B1 (aka 7300 aka UNIX-PC) vi has modeline[s] on by default, with
>no way to turn it off!  I'm thinking of writing a simple C program, called vi,
>that scans the file[s] to be edited looking for the culprit string.  It will
>delete or modify the offending string and then call the real vi.  I don't
>know how much interest there is in something like this, but I will post the
>source if and when I ever get it done.



	There have been postings in the "unix-pc" hierarchy which
	provide patches to the vi binary to turn off modeline.
	You should look there - they might have been cross-posted
	to "comp.sys.att" as well...



>				John Opalko
>
>				jgo at mcgp1.UUCP     (3B2 at work)
>				john at n7kbt.WA.COM  (3B1 at home)



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