[comp.lang.pascal] Never, NEVER, rewrite input: a gaping hole in Pascal text files

markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) (07/27/88)

     A couple years back, I had a friend show me a program that she was about to
run.  It had a rewrite(input) in it.  I felt very uneasy and told her to be 
careful.
     Well, anyway she went upstairs into the computer lab and ran the program.
That's the last anyone's seen of her ...

     A few months back, I heard that somebody else tried to rewrite(input).  To
this day he still can't remember who he is ...