Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:03:56 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nils Anders Danielsson <nils DOT anders AT swipnet DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: System crashing - system( "readme.txt" );
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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:

> I'm writing a file manager with a command line function, and it's quite
> difficult to check if what's written is "runnable" or not.

If it's difficult for your application, it is much more difficult for the 
library functions, which don't even know what kind of application calls 
them and what's the source of the command lines that are passed to them.