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SubjectRe: possible viri in tarballs?
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On Wednesday 05 February 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:24:59PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >/home/gene/src/linux-3.2.40/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt:
>> >MBL_400944.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
>>
>> You will see more history.
>>
>> So that file needs sanitized. I was under the impression that a file
>> with the .txt extension was supposed to be pure ascii text, but its
>> loaded to the gills with some sort of markup crap. And I have at
>> least 20 copies of it.
>
>Huh? There are lines with
>
>* Overview
>
>...
>
>** Linux host drivers
>
>...
>
>in that file, sure. But I'd hardly call that "loaded to the gills
>with markup crap".
>
>If the file was had any amount of XML or XHTML2, that would be markup
>crap. But some Twiki style ascii markup is hardly a problem -- it
>looks just fine when viewed in a text reader.
>
> - Ted

I was using mc's f3 function. I agree, it looks fine in less, or even
gedit. I am going to filter it, you do as you feel is correct.

Thanks Ted.

Cheers, Gene
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