[407] in bugtraq
Re: Virus's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zygo Blaxell)
Wed Dec 7 07:33:05 1994
From: Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@miranda.uwaterloo.ca>
To: petert@lehman.com (peter theobald)
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 06:29:44 -0500 (EST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9412062014.AA02423@terrapin.lehman.com> from "peter theobald" at Dec 6, 94 03:14:21 pm
Quoted from peter theobald:
> On the old Apple II, there were escape codes you could embed into
> a printable string that would position the cursor, write a command,
> and then cause that line on the screen to be executed.
> Ie: executable mail!
On the old Apple II, it was the only way to execute disk commands.
PRINT CHR$(4); "CATALOG"
is the directory command (Apple II basic didn't include disk commands as
part of the language--it was intercepted by the console print routine).
