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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: alt.security,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Here's how to stop shell escapes from vi
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.181350.29828@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Sep 90 18:13:50 GMT
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In article <935@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:

>If you have two minutes time, please try the following: 2000i-<esc>
>This should construct a line of 2000 characters, which is above the
>limits at least my vi (386/ix Rel 2.0.2) can handle. Then insert
>another character into this line ... and whoops, vi throws you into
>ex-mode.

>Nice feature - who would ever have thought? Possibly some user which
>you carefully tried to keep away from ex-prompts knows this little
>"feature" (who said it is a bug?).

Yep, not to mention the "tmp file too large" problem that everyone
that has ever used vi knows about.  It just takes a little more
work to make that one happen.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us