How to prevent VI from getting a shell?

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Fri Sep 21 14:55:48 AEST 1990


In article <1990Sep18.204300.25376 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> Sorta defeats the purpose of using vi unless you really don't have any
> useful programs to :r !command or :w !command.

That's why you set up macros to invoke the special, secure, cases that
users really want. fmt, for example.

---Dan



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