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From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to prevent VI from getting a shell?
Message-ID: <ganglia@dce.ie>
Date: 1 Oct 90 11:06:40 GMT
References: <570@DIALix.UUCP> <1990Sep17.210110.26060@robobar.co.uk> <81@raysnec.UUCP> <7007@ozdaltx.UUCP>
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In article <7007@ozdaltx.UUCP> toma@ozdaltx.UUCP (Tom Armistead) writes:
>Here is a real small C program that will batch the /usr/bin/vi, creating
>an output file ./vi.new that will not have the ':set shell' command.
>What it does is look for 'shell' and replace it with 5 spaces. So,
>':set shell' gives an error...

Vi also allows `:set sh' as an abbreviation for `:set shell'.