Hi William,
On Aug 13, 5:25 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Simon King<simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote:
...
> Wow, so when I read a random pdf off the web and click on it, then it
> could run a shell command, e.g., "rm -rf $HOME"?
My boss just gave me some details.
In fact, the book comprises a pdf file *plus* certain shell scripts,
say run_ex_1.sh
In the latex file, he has commands like
\href{run:path/to/run_ex_1.sh}{Example 1}
This would result in the text "Example 1", which you could click. If
you do, you would first be asked whether you want to execute that
script or not. I don't know if this would work on any platform
(probably not).
After all, the scripts shipped with the book could contain evil
commands, so you have to decide whether you want to trust my boss :-)
But I think you could do nasty things on shell level with a Sage
worksheet as well, couldn't you?
Cheers,
Simon
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