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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> > But to think of the security-cheese that most M$ apps are (e.g. you
> > can exec arbitrary commands from excel)...
> 
> Indeed.  Whether displaying it automatically or not -- doing things
> that are known to be dangerous without warning gives me a bad vibe.
> 
> Most of the other viewers are "harmless" -- xv is unlikely to execute
> parts of the data contained in pictures.  The Microsoft "viewers" are all
> infamous for executing whatever you throw at them.

  So then I assume we pass -dSAFER to ghostview or ghostscript?  Wouldn't
want a postscript attachment deleting, renaming, or overwriting files. :)

  I know XV does this by default when viewing postscript files.

-Bill P.