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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: links - forget UNIX; what about AMIGA?
Message-ID: <30.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 15 Sep 89 13:48:43 GMT
References: <14187@netnews.upenn.edu> <1410031@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <1989Sep13.022711.7311@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1989Sep13.022711.7311@agate.berkeley.edu> Mike Meyer writes:
>In article <1410031@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
><This scares me.  I am already nervous about sticking unknown disks
><into my Amiga.
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><But with your proposal I would no longer be safe to peruse these
><files.  Just LOOKING at a "file" has the possibility of infecting my
><Amiga.  No thanks.
>
>No, you have to _read_ it. Doing a list on it shouldn't do anything
>other than tell you that it's a link, and where it points to.
Whoa there.  I'm mainly a CLI user but I often have WorkBench running for
certain tasks.  You may be a pure CLI user.  Let's not forget those who use
WorkBench -- probably a large majority of Amiga users, by volume if not by
weight ;-}.  What happens every time you stick a floppy in a drive, if
you've run LoadWB?  WorkBench reads disk.info.  What happens if disk.info is
a booby-trapped link?  ....

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