Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: strange behaviour of vi
Message-ID: <3557@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 17:51:56 GMT
References: <117815@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Yes, there is an undocumented feature that will take the first line as
>initial commands.

As others have noted, it's the first 5 lines...

>The password file should be safe since the first line should begin with
>"root:".

...and therefore it's not safe; I remember somebody at Sun being bit by
this "vi" misfeature.