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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trojan horse FIX for Rnmail and Pnews
Message-ID: <170@becker.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 08:45:20 GMT
References: <6798@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <591@auspex.UUCP> <6811@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <1687@mcgp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1687@mcgp1.UUCP> newsadm@mcgp1.UUCP (Netnews Administrator) writes:
>In article <6811@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>, news@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (News administrator) writes:
>>                                               If anyone has a vi
>> that doesn't understand +set nomodeline[s], they should speak up.
>
>The AT&T 3B1 (aka 7300 aka UNIX-PC) vi has modeline[s] on by default, with
>no way to turn it off!  I'm thinking of writing a simple C program, called vi,
>that scans the file[s] to be edited looking for the culprit string.  It will
>delete or modify the offending string and then call the real vi.  I don't
>know how much interest there is in something like this, but I will post the
>source if and when I ever get it done.



	There have been postings in the "unix-pc" hierarchy which
	provide patches to the vi binary to turn off modeline.
	You should look there - they might have been cross-posted
	to "comp.sys.att" as well...



>				John Opalko
>
>				jgo@mcgp1.UUCP     (3B2 at work)
>				john@n7kbt.WA.COM  (3B1 at home)



Cheers,
-- 
Bruce Becker        Toronto, Ont.
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