Jason Costomiris on Mon, 21 Dec 1998 07:07:17 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Fwd: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here!]


On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:07:02AM -0500, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:
: Hi All,
: 
: Here is a wonderful announcement from Corel Corp.  Word Perfect is being
: given away to the Linux comunity for free for presonal use.  

Be *VERY* careful running WP8 on Linux.  Why?

Check out the bugtraq advisory about it.  It does some amazingly
stupid things in /tmp.

In short, don't run wp8 under any uid that has any sort of privelege.

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