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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Screen print capability
To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov Black Mage)
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 04:26:39 -0500 (CDT)
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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.