Re: a safe Postscript interpreter

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From: David Dick
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:34

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In <1992Apr7.181248.28090@rice.edu> pkn@is.rice.edu (Kay Nettle) writes:

>I have just become aware that Postscript can have security holes in
>it, filenameforall, deletefile, renamefile, etc.  Does anyone know of
>a "safe" Postscript interpreter?

>Thanks,
>Kay

>Kay Nettle					internet:pkn@is.rice.edu
>Rice University					bitnet:pkn@rice.edu
>Office of Networking & Computing Systems	phone:713-285-5424

Not to mention viruses carried in fonts...

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company]

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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Subject: Re: a safe Postscript interpreter
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