[Esd-l] Filename mangling

[John D. Hardin]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Murray Crane wrote:

> On a side note John, if we are forced to stop mangling documents
> (and this will be a resignation matter for me) will that have any
> other side effects I need to be aware of?  I.e. is the macro
> scoring tied into the mangler?

No. This is the precise reason that Office files are considered
"special" - you can turn off filename mangling and still have them
subject to macro scanning and by-filename stripping and poisoning.

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