Broken "Select" in dselect (typos removed)

[Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu>]

Hi All.

This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org
stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the
Select option, the program just quits with the message:

 dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory

This is on a 32MB AMDK6-233; one partition with 235MB still free. Kernel is
2.0.36.

Any clues?

Thanks!