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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: overflow message in RN
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.043353.13401@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 04:33:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: csu@alembic.acs.com's message of 19 Nov 89 06:58:42 GMT

Dave Mack <csu@alembic.acs.com> wrote:
>>	% interp buffer overflow!
> Apply this patch.

The quicker hack is to increase LBUFLEN (and probably CBUFLEN) in
common.h; fend off all sorts of different buffer overflows.  4096 is a
goodly number, assuming you're not hurting for memory or swap space.

A proper fix would take a minor rewrite.
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!flee