Re: tlug: Office suite for use under Linux

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Frank> The concensus in the end, if I remember correctly, was that
>     Frank> this would be a bad idea, precisely because it would open
>     Frank> the door to OS level viruses embedded in TeX documents or
>     Frank> style files.
> 
> Of course, if you process the wrong set of TeX macros as root, it can
> open your .bashrc and put `rm -rf /' in it....  Or in some file in
> /etc/init.d ....
> 
> I would never actually write a TeX file like that, you understand.

Fair enough.
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
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