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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Finding Passwords
Message-ID: <BZS.90Oct11184523@world.std.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 22:45:23 GMT
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Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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In-Reply-To: rang@cs.wisc.edu's message of 11 Oct 90 18:49:10 GMT


Although doubling a magic character like BEL seems clever it has the
problem of requiring all the file transfer programs (uucp, kermit,
xyzmodem) to be modified to deal with this.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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