From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jan 08 00:55:26 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:56:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EvWKj-0007p7-Pd for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:55:25 -0800 Received: from adsl-63-197-122-98.dsl.sktn01.pacbell.net ([63.197.122.98] helo=synx.dyndns.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EvWKg-0007os-7M for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:55:25 -0800 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by synx.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DA43B7461 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:55:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:55:16 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "Windows Metafile Vulnerability" Message-ID: <20060108085516.GE2134@localhost> References: <46269339.20060107133749@mail.ru> <925d17560601070811h51a8af86k7c2b2e204d3f9eac@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d17560601070811h51a8af86k7c2b2e204d3f9eac@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Tasci X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-archive-position: 2919 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojban@synx.dyndns.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners * Jorge Llamb?as (jjllambias@gmail.com) wrote: > A "metafile", if I understand the definitions I found, is > not a file but a specific graphics file format. I may not know lojban yet, but I can step forward for this. A metafile, in the Windows sense, is a file that can represent a different file, whether a graphics file format, or a binary executable virus. That's why people are so up in arms about WMF format, and also why it's so easy to write viruses for it. Purported as an image format, it's really more like one of those self extracting zip archives. I might also add meta was originally Greek for "after, while, or beyond." People since attributed it to also mean "self-referencing" as in "metafile" is a file of files, or "an abstraction on top of" as in "metaphysics" is the physics of physics itself. Does that help figure out what metafile is in lojban at all? -- Pandora "Starling/Tasci/Antinomy/Figment/???" synx pgp key at http://synx.dyndns.org/starling.asc