[reportlab-users] question about postscript

[Jerome Alet]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:18:36AM +0100, Dinu Gherman wrote:
> Andy Robinson:
> 
> >But in principle PostScript is a general purpose language
> >so someone could do the equivalent of [...]
> 
> Rumours had it that you could/can even call system functions
> and delete the user's harddisk while printing the report of
> what you did! ;-)

yes, because  PostScript is a also general purpose language
with primitives to access files directly.

this is "fixed" in recent versions of ghostscript, which
disables this under some circumstances IIRC

bye, and thanks to all

Jerome Alet