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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to prevent VI from getting a shell?
Message-ID: <13703:Sep2104:55:4890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 04:55:48 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.204300.25376@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> Sorta defeats the purpose of using vi unless you really don't have any
> useful programs to :r !command or :w !command.

That's why you set up macros to invoke the special, secure, cases that
users really want. fmt, for example.

---Dan