Bug#273194: xterm: Cutting and pasting 4000 characters leaves some off the end

[Andrew Moise <chops@demiurgestudios.com>]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7
Severity: normal

  If I type 'seq -w 0 999' in one xterm, and cut-and-paste the output into
another xterm which is running 'cat > /dev/null', I see only the numbers 0
through 818.  Cut-and-pasting 500 lines of 7 characters each, or 250 lines of
15 characters each, gives me similar results.  Oddly enough, 1000 lines of 7
characters each seem to cut-and-paste properly.
  This may well be yet another example of my recent streak of reporting
non-xterm bugs to the xterm package; it happens in aterm and rxvt as well, for
example.  It happens with both bash and zsh, and with X-Win32 as well as
Debian's X server.  emacs and abiword both accept 1000 lines of 3 characters
each properly.  Presumably, then, it's a library bug, but I'm not sure how
to go about tracking down which library is responsible.  Sorry.  Filing it
against xterm seems better than keeping it to myself :-).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1+mppe
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1                 1.95.6-8       XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1            2.2.3-1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxaw7                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                   2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm4                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xlibs-data                4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client data

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