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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .plan
Message-ID: <10849@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Aug 89 07:58:20 GMT
References: <61@towernet.UUCP> <1989Aug23.192105.21328@ee.rochester.edu> <10814@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1810@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <1810@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) writes:
>It's not really finger that needs to be fixed, but the terminal.

Well, that's not generally an option.

>/tmp/PLEASE-README, and wait for someone with the right terminal (and
>capabilities) to cat it.  And that isn't a security hole in cat...

Anoyone who uses "cat" to display unknown file contents on his fancy
terminal deserves whatever he gets.  However, in the case of "finger",
there is no alternate method available (assuming remote system use).
Therefore "finger" ought to better support its intended use.