🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Article #13610

Re: shelling to Dos

#13610
From: Hi Ho Silver
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 1990 02:42
11 lines
1111 bytes
In article <1990Dec24.012958.9228@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> salter@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (John E Salter) writes:
$How does one prevent an application from shelling to DOS?

   Well, before invoking it, you could set the COMSPEC environment variable
to point to a program which simply returns, and reset it afterwards.  There
may well be other ways ...
-- 
 __            __  _  | ...!nexus.yorku.edu!xrtll!silver |  always
(__  | | |  | |_  |_) >----------------------------------< searching
 __) | |_ \/  |__ | \ | if you don't like my posts, type |    for
_____________________/  find / -print|xargs cat|compress |   SNTF
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.024222.13265@xrtll.uucp>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!xrtll!silver
References: <1990Dec24.012958.9228@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!xrtll!silver
From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: shelling to Dos
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.024222.13265@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 25 Dec 90 02:42:22 GMT
References: <1990Dec24.012958.9228@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
Lines: 11