Article View: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Article #1287Re: links - forget UNIX; what about AMIGA?
From: Bela Lubkin
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1989 13:48
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1989 13:48
21 lines
1714 bytes
1714 bytes
In article <1989Sep13.022711.7311@agate.berkeley.edu> Mike Meyer writes:
>In article <1410031@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
><This scares me. I am already nervous about sticking unknown disks
><into my Amiga.
[deleted]
><But with your proposal I would no longer be safe to peruse these
><files. Just LOOKING at a "file" has the possibility of infecting my
><Amiga. No thanks.
>
>No, you have to _read_ it. Doing a list on it shouldn't do anything
>other than tell you that it's a link, and where it points to.
Whoa there. I'm mainly a CLI user but I often have WorkBench running for
certain tasks. You may be a pure CLI user. Let's not forget those who use
WorkBench -- probably a large majority of Amiga users, by volume if not by
weight ;-}. What happens every time you stick a floppy in a drive, if
you've run LoadWB? WorkBench reads disk.info. What happens if disk.info is
a booby-trapped link? ....
Bela Lubkin * * filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us CIS: 73047,1112
@ * * ...ucbvax!ucscc!gorn!filbo ^^^ REALLY slow [months]
R Pentomino * Filbo @ Pyrzqxgl (408) 476-4633 & XBBS (408) 476-4945
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<30.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ucscc.ucsc.edu!gorn!filboReferences:
<14187@netnews.upenn.edu> <1410031@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <1989Sep13.022711.7311@agate.berkeley.edu>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ucscc.ucsc.edu!gorn!filbo From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: links - forget UNIX; what about AMIGA? Message-ID: <30.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> Date: 15 Sep 89 13:48:43 GMT References: <14187@netnews.upenn.edu> <1410031@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <1989Sep13.022711.7311@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: R Pentomino Lines: 21 X-Claimer: I >am< R Pentomino!