Re: Another Windows98 Bug...

[flo () POWERONLINE NET (Florian Henke)]

> Scott schrieb:
>
> I'm not sure about the details of this problem, but when testing
> another buffer overflow, I created a long filename called
> "testfile.txt
> "
> (note the chr(160)'s at the end) It is 235 characters in length.
> After creating it on my desktop, I right clicked on it; explorer
> crashed saying it caused an illegal operation.  the only way I found
> to close this was by using command.com  I sent this to a friend and
> he got the same error.
>
>         -Scott Campbell (smc () visuallink com)

I have tried to cause the same error, running a german version of
win98 and did not have any problems, neither on the specific Filelenth
nor on longer filenames.

        Florian Henke
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