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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:09:52 -0700 (PWT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
Cc:        Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NetWare client in -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9909130908090.10872-100000@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990913092335.A35751@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>

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> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
> > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for
> > line-editing is in the driver.  Hell - it's already doing basic
> > erase/kill line editing as it is.  Then you don't have to hack every
> > command-line app to get line-editing.

Yeah, and this is why VMS 4.X (early) had a terrific security bug- if you
type '#' (or was it '&') as the first character after you logged in, your
accounting records for that session were wiped.

No, a driver is *not* the place to put this kind of fooling around.




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