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Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 07:22:39 EDT
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Hello all,
   Does anybody out there have any documentation on the CLD?
The kind of things I want to know about are:

1) What does the PREFIX command do?
2) What do all those CLIFLAGS do?
3) Info about CLIROUTINES.

Thanks.

Now for the great SYSPRV debate:

If images are going to open such things as SYS$SYSTEM:SYSUAF.DAT then
they should take care only to open files by translating exec mode
logical names. Be careful with SYS$INPUT and SYS$OUPUT! A quick test
(Remember to take SYSPRV etc. off yourself before you do it!!)
to try on your favorite image (Installed with SYSPRV) that produces
output is (and that includes you DEC!!!).

$ ASSIGN/USER some_place_you_cant_write:A.B SYS$OUTPUT
$ RUN your_favorite_image

Maybe a good practice is to turn privs off when in doubt. (Just watch
MAIL with getjpi from another terminal for an example of software
turning SYSPRV on and off)

I hope that this goes some way towards making utilities like finger
(When fixed!!) more safe and hence more popular amongst system managers.

                                  Neill.