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Article #4042Re: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology
From: e... Erkki A. Lehtimki
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 05:42
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 05:42
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In article <1990Aug28.1...@ctr.columbia.edu> mo...@ctr.columbia.edu (Robert Mokry) writes:
>Is ^D really a standard character? It may be standard in Unix, but what
>about other systems? Why not use ^C? What if a login program on a
>non-Unix computer gets confused and crashes when it gets ^D, letting the
>person on the system? And what if the person knows that this is the case?
When I see login: -prompt, I am pretty sure, that it is *ix-machine, and that
^D is the right one. And when I see Username: -prompt, I am again pretty sure
that it is VMS-machine, and that ^Z is the right one. If the prompt is
something else, then I can always hit break and disconnect from the server.
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Erkki Lehtim{ki e...@kaarne.tut.fi "I don't eat nutrasweet or use a disclaimer"
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From: e...@kaarne.tut.fi (Erkki A. Lehtim{ki)
Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology
Summary: This is ridiculous
Keywords: ^D,^Z,^C
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Date: 29 Aug 90 05:42:48 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.194144.10910@cbnewsl.att.com> <1990Aug28.161459.11497@ctr.columbia.edu> <1990Aug28.174333.22132@athena.mit.edu> <1990Aug28.182451.11662@ctr.columbia.edu>
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