From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Saving attachments with a leading dot
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:50:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31xtao5gx.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wub2lcnz.fsf@defun.localdomain>
Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> Auch! They are *far* too dangerous -- they don't strip the directory
> part of the file name, and they don't complain if the file already
> exists. So, e.g.
>
> begin 664 /home/harder/.login
>
> will happily overwrite my .login file.
That's really not good. I'm kinda surprised that it does no such
checking -- I mean, it was written in 1992, but even so...
I must be mis-remembering, but I thought it translated all slashes to
strokes...
Actually, the function I meant to mention was `X m'. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-18 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 23:39 Jesper Harder
2003-09-24 10:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-25 3:24 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-25 4:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-25 5:49 ` Jochen Küpper
2003-09-29 3:28 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-02 18:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-10-02 19:56 ` Jochen Küpper
2003-10-03 1:35 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-03 14:04 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-10-02 18:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 13:53 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 14:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 15:11 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 16:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 16:16 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 17:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 15:48 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-24 16:11 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-25 14:40 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-25 3:23 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-25 8:44 ` Hanak David
2003-09-29 3:20 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-17 17:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-10-18 16:43 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-18 16:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-10-18 20:04 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-18 23:17 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-19 11:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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