Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!husc6!ddl
From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING
Keywords: trapdoors in distributed binaries
Message-ID: <4395@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 01:49:00 GMT
References: <1990Sep29.004107.17548@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1990Oct1.192920.679@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Oct1.192920.679@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>, ken@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) writes:
| It only took about 6 weeks for one of us (yes, I confess, it was I) to
| type "xyzzy" to the command interpreter prompt, just to see what would
| happen... 

	Interesting, some versions of MS-DOS also had an xyzzy command.
It appeared to enable exit-status reporting from the shell..

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*