[reportlab-users] question about postscript

Dinu Gherman reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:18:36 +0100


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! ;-)

Dinu

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