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Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 11-Nov-92 Making a hyperlink
running .. Dag Nygren@atomica.fi (535)

is there a way of using pushbuttons to run other programs from a ez document?

The problem with doing this is that the general case is a rather nasty
security hole.  That is if you can send mail or a bboard post with a
button with any arbitrary command there is a much greater risk of a
(pick your favorite computer program nasty) deleting all your files, or
looking at private data.  Under ATTBL_ENV in atk/hyplink/linkv.c there
is some code for having buttons which execute a command, but it depends
on a class we didn't pick up from the contributors... (AT&T Bell Labs).

It might be cool to subclass linkv so that selected programs could be
run on the destination of a link, but care would be needed to ensure
that security isn't compromised.  (For example having a filename like 
blah`rm -rf $HOME/*`foo go through sh would be unfortunate...)

-Rob Ryan
Andrew Consortium