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- From: AWPSYS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Andrew Potter, Assoc. Dir, ISC DCO&TS)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: FInger
- Message-ID: <01GRDUQKU2KK9ODWJR@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:41:45 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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- >
- >>Now your usual commands such as SHOW PROC and SHOW SYS don't do funny
- >>things with this situation, but CONTROL-T does ring your bell.
-
- >and delete all your files except for some directories. Please note that
- >putting special characters in your process name IS SOMETHING THAT YOU DO TO
- >YOURSELF. You can't screw up someone else's terminal that way; only your own.
-
- The DCL command SHOW uses $FAO to filter non printing characters from process
- names. Finger does not.
-
- I personnally believe that any system wide utility that displays individual
- user specified fields should give the systems manager a mechanism to
- filter non printing characters. With numerous terminals today it is still
- possible to do nasties with letter bombs.
-
- - Andy
-