what part of: Mail-Followup-To: Debian-powerpc <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies. *don't* you understand? On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:07:11PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > What's your point? that you don't know what your talking about. > > From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> > > Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:18:30 -0900 > > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow? > > Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:33:08AM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I recently noticed that cat'ing a bin file in the terminal will render this > >> terminal unusable. Here is a short reproducible test case : > >> > >> $cat /sbin/mkfs.ext2 > >> > >> Garbage is populating the output (which is ok in case of non-ascii chars), > >> but when it's done, the label before the prompt sign and everything typed is > >> just garbage too. I run 2.4.15 but I've seen this on prior 2.4.x builts. > > > > you have obviously never used a unix system before. > > > > -- > > Ethan Benson > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ > > > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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