[109700] in Cypherpunks
Re: Virus, Media and Open systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Fri Apr 2 00:40:49 1999
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 2 Apr 1999 05:27:33 GMT
Reply-To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
In article <3.0.5.32.19990401081459.008b1160@idiom.com>,
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> wrote:
>Can TeX / LaTeX import files or scripts from the local operating system?
Yes, though I'm not positive TeX can natively execute code. However,
postscript can, and a TeX file can include postscript commands.
*roff can also execute code.
- Ian "You _do_ have SAFER mode turned on in your postscript viewer...?"
