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Subject: Re: Screen print capability
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 20:45:09 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9505010034.AA04581@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 30, 95 06:34:40 pm
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> I agree it can be dangerous to yourself.

Or in a timeshared environment.

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!