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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Bug in finger.c
Message-ID: <2405@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 30 May 91 21:35:01 GMT
References: <7961@awdprime.UUCP> <2373@amix.commodore.com> <7986@awdprime.UUCP>
Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development
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In article <7986@awdprime.UUCP> jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
writes:
>I had something a tad less drastic in mind - perhaps
>
>	printf ("\\%0o", c);
>
>Someone may actually care about what those characters were, or like
>to know that something was there at all.

Neither case is very interesting.  If someone is that interested in
such things then they should dump the file directly using od or the
like.

The Plan and Project files are restricted in that they must be one
line and not contain characters that may cause terminals to do weird
things.  I see no reason to add extra code to finger to massage a
badly (possibly maliciously) formatted file.

Others may disagree and I have heard from a number of them.

Pax, Keith
-- 
Keith Gabryelski                                 Advanced Products Group
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