Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!think!barmar
From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .plan
Message-ID: <28787@news.Think.COM>
Date: 3 Sep 89 19:05:12 GMT
References: <2620@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1966@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <474@escom.com> <5836@sybase.sybase.com> <4011@buengc.BU.EDU>
Sender: news@Think.COM
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Lines: 17

In article <4011@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@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.

barmar@think.com
{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar