On 2004-01-24, Glynn Clements wrote: > PostScript has the ability to read/write named files, and nothing > prohibits an implementation from making peripheral devices or ports > accessible as named files. E.g. using GhostScript on Linux, the > following trivial PostScript program sends a WAV file (or the first > 20kb thereof) to the sound card: > > (/dev/dsp) (w) file dup > (foo.wav) (r) file > 20000 string readstring pop > writestring flushfile > > [The -dSAFER switch disables file access, and should be used when > running gs on "untrusted" PostScript files.] > Does this mean, that a Postscript-file is not safer than a MS Word document? Shouldnt -dSAFER be then the default option? Or breaks this something else? -- Georg
