Re: bug in minicom 1.75 ?

[sstone () UME PHT CO JP (Scott Stone)]

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Koji wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I dont have notices about that publication, if it happens, im so sorry.
> I have been testing some commands from the shell with minicom, getting
> unexpected results. They proove with minicom 1.75.
>
> in debian 1.3.1 ...
>
> # minicom `perl -e 'print "0" x 100;'`
> minicom: WARNING: configuration file not found, using defaults
> minicom: cannot open /dev/cua1: No such file or directory
>
> # minicom `perl -e 'print "0" x 1000;'`
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>
> Thank very much and have a nice day

This appears to be fixed in minicom 1.81.1 - at least, I can't exploit it
on mine.  Although now that minicom uses alt- keys, I can't run it in an
xterm anymore.. sigh.

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