Re: TALK: Animations in .plan
In article <2vs1db$5g...@gagme.wwa.com>, rcn...@midway.uchicago.edu (R. Nortman) writes: |> How do I put a vt animation in a .plan file, You can't and still expect just anyone to be able to read them. RFC1288, the "finger" standard, specifies that the finger daemon should return binary data. Whether this data is presented to the end user in it's entirety is up to the user interface. The case SHOULD be, according to the RFC, that escape codes < 32 should not be printed unless the user specifically asked for them. There SHOULD also be a user-settable flag to say whether of not chars with the top bit set should be printed. The default for this should be system-settable. Now, I've never actually seen an implementation of finger that complies with this. The behaviour of most unix fingers (derived from the BSD finger sources) is to never even send non-printable data. |> Actually I expect that the answer to all of these questions is no, but |> I'm hoping somebody will prove me wrong.... I'm hoping not. I really wouldn't like to finger someone and find it reprogram my terminal! That is not just anti-social, but a significant security risk. Tim. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |University of Cambridge Computing Service - Unix-Support | |Tim Auckland <tda...@ucs.cam.ac.uk> | |Light a Candle and support Global Warming |
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