From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 04:23:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA01792 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 04:23:20 -0700 Received: from dkuug.dk (dkuug.dk [193.88.44.89]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA01780 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 04:22:58 -0700 Received: from kmd-ac.dk by dkuug.dk with UUCP id AA27217 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for FreeBSD.org!hackers); Tue, 2 May 1995 13:22:45 +0200 Message-Id: <199505021122.AA27217@dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: Screen print capability To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:49:43 +0000 (GMT) From: "Soeren Schmidt" Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, julian@ref.tfs.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, sos@login.dknet.dk In-Reply-To: <199505020926.EAA01671@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at May 2, 95 04:26:39 am From: sos@FreeBSD.org (Soren Schmidt) Reply-To: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 980 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Peter da Silva who wrote: > > > It is well known backdoor and it is MUA itself problem (MUA need > > to be fixed). > > All other stuff (wall,write,talk) already care about it using isprint(). > > Every program anyone might write? That includes the example I gave, with > "cat"? How about "telnet"? No, the escape sequence interface for this is > terribly IBM mainframe anyway... an ioctl or (even better) a separate /dev > file that you can read the screen from is much much cleaner. Erm, I guess its my turn to put in some $0.02's What I have in mind to do (actually on my LONG todolist), is implementing a device entry /dev/screen or whatever, which will give you the current screen image with attributes size the works... I have deliberately not implemented SCO's esc. seq. for all the stated reasons... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@kmd-ac.dk) FreeBSD Core Team ..