Hylafax & filePro vs. Vsifax

[Fairlight]

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Barry Wiseman shouted:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Aldridge" <tla at aldridgeinc.com>
> > ::system noredraw "touch /appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:
> > ::system noredraw "chmod 777 /appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:
> 
> BTW, lines 2-4 of your code can be accomplished with much less typing like
> this:
> 
>     ::printer "umask 0; cat >/appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:

Why point out a shorter way to shoot yourself in the foot?  If someone is
inexperienced enough to insist upon 0777 on a file, the least they should
have to do is work -very hard- to make the conscious effort to circumvent
the natural security that *nix permissions provide when used properly.

More likely is that they should be banished to Windows systems for the rest
of their days, where security is a joke as a matter of course.  But
-assuming- they're going to stay on *nix, they really should be forced to
write far MORE lines to do what he's doing.  By the time they finish with
more lines, there's the possibility they'd potentially realise what a
mistake they were making, and back the offending code out.

mark->
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