On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:50:24 -0300, Nelson Brito said: > : I think this issue popped up several times on BUGTRAQ few years ago... > : This is a pretty interesting issue, because e.g. pine used to escape such > : characters improperly (not sure if this is still any problem, I reported > : it a while ago). > > I didn't remember this issue on BUGTRAQ, but I can't point it out that this > is OLD-NEWS in the wild. I can't *prove* it, but I know the first time I heard of "something fails to filter ANSI/vt100 control chars" was at my previous employer, which means it dates back to at least May 89. I seem to remember something way back in the '84/'85 time frame - it could have been the BSD 4.3 release notes saying "We fixed a lot of these from 4.2". I do remember various BSD4.2-derived systems having lots of filtering issues.... So we've reached the point in computing history where we have younger readers of this list hearing about bugs that were *first* found before the readers were even born. How depressing. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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