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From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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To: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
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Subject: Re: talk(1) patch to allow 8bits characters
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   This is an extremely dangerous patch.  A number of terminal protocols 
   have a 'talkback' escape sequence that allow you to write data
   that the terminal then copies back as if someone typed it.  I remember
   using this feature quite a lot while at Berkeley to, ah, break into
   people's accounts :-)

   isprintf() is in there to prevent extranious escape sequences from 
   blowing up the other guy's window.

						-Matt


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