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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (argh!) Better Trojan horse fix for Rnmail & Pnews
Message-ID: <692@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 22:19:55 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I seem to remember another startup 'feature' that I didn't think very
>much of.  Ex/vi would source a .exrc file in the current directory,
>if one existed, as well as the ~/.exrc in your home directory.
>Does this still happen in more modern vi's?

Yes.  It's in the S5R3.1 version, as well as the 4.3BSD version;
however, in the 4.3BSD version, it won't source it unless it's owned by
the current real UID or "sourceany" is set (the same applies to
"~/.exrc").