Date: Mon, 1 May 95 10:22:06 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen print capability Message-ID: <9505011622.AA26054@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505010145.UAA29544@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 30, 95 08:45:09 pm
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> For example, one of our contractors used this as a joke. He had a file > called "contract.rate" that contained the sequences to load the > status line with "/his-home/.x/x" and send it, and in .x/x had a > script that pretended to be deleting your home directory. You don't > often *run* stuff in other people's directories, but catting a file is > "supposed" to be safe! All Wyse, Televideo, Adm, Hazeltine, Lear/Seigler, Beehive, etc. terminals have similar report sequences. As does the VT131 and any other terminal thet can be put in "block mode", like the IBM 3101, etc.. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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