patl@??? probably said:
> Furthermore, the problem appears to only affect MUAs for various
> flavors of Windows. Apparently the faulty programs assume that
> the filenames specified will be legal FAT/VFAT/NTFS/... constructs
> with no single component exceeding the OS' name length restrictions.
> (E.g. 8.3 for Windows 3.x/FAT) Unix programs tend to be much more
> liberal in the filenames they expect. (I don't know about Macs,
> AmigaDOS or other OSes. I suspect that most of them are a small
> enough segment of the market that they aren't even targetted.)
Not true - both pine and mutt were two examples of unix programs that were
vunerable.
P.
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