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- From: holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: alt 255
- Date: 26 Aug 1992 18:43:59 -0500
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Message-ID: <17h4vvINNp71@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
-
- >From a program, you can actually put a space (ASCII 32) in the filename.
- >This will prevent some hacker from using the alt-255 trick to delete your
- >file. Of course, if you create a file ' abc.xyz', it can be gotten rid of
- >with the command 'del *.xyz'.
-
- In the academic computer lab I worked in, this used to happen all the
- time. The word perfect books said to save the first exercise as
- "CHAPT11 .EX1" and the students always did. :-)
-
- We deleted it with 'del chapt11?.ex1'....
-
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