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From: newsadm@mcgp1.UUCP (Netnews Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trojan horse FIX for Rnmail and Pnews
Summary: 3B1 vi has no modeline[s] option
Message-ID: <1687@mcgp1.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 16:03:49 GMT
References: <6798@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <591@auspex.UUCP> <6811@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., Seattle, WA
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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.


				John Opalko

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