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From: mike@turing.unm.edu.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Security problem on UNIX PC's
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:55:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 03:55:26 1987
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In article <1487@geac.UUCP> daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) writes:
>.....
>  This is know as an "open subsystem", and was first popularized by
>ICL (you know, the english mainframers).  It is the opposite of a
>"closed subsystem" like mail or <your favorite editor>.

Nope.  <my favorite editor> is GNU emacs.  It isn't a closed
subsystem, rather, it allows E-Lisp to execute any command.

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Sigh.




					Michael I. Bushnell
					a/k/a Bach II
					mike@turing.unm.edu
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