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Date:      Tue, 2 May 1995 04:26:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov Black Mage)
Cc:        julian@ref.tfs.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, sos@login.dknet.dk
Subject:   Re: Screen print capability
Message-ID:  <199505020926.EAA01671@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <oMNTAfliU1@astral.msk.su> from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at May 1, 95 01:18:15 pm

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> It is well known backdoor and it is MUA itself problem (MUA need
> to be fixed).
> All other stuff (wall,write,talk) already care about it using isprint().

Every program anyone might write? That includes the example I gave, with
"cat"? How about "telnet"? No, the escape sequence interface for this is
terribly IBM mainframe anyway... an ioctl or (even better) a separate /dev
file that you can read the screen from is much much cleaner.



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