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From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: disallowing subshell in More
Message-ID: <143@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 11:00:41 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 17 11:00:41 1985
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Posted from  vip@philabs.UUCP
> >It's beginning to look like the law of diminishing returns is taking
> >effect - you might want to write a simple pager that doesn't do anything
> >other than page files.  (I didn't even think about "more"s escape to "vi",
> >because I never use it - that's one problem with big programs with a large
> >set of features that few people are 100% familiar with.)  Try "p", shown
> >in Kernighan and Pike starting on p. 180.
> 
> Okay, Guy, great.  But what if you want your users to use a program like 
> vi?  Then what?  I would like users to be able to use an editor.  Vi and 
> most other editors, with the exception of some of the third-party
> (expensive) stuff, allow the user to escape to a shell.
> 

System V has an editor called red(1) which is just a restricted version of
ed(1).  The restrictions are that you can only edit files in the current
directory and the '!' shell escape command is disallowed.

				robert
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Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology

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