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From: bill@flash.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: overflow message in RN
Message-ID: <316@flash.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:16:16 GMT
References: <3678@devon.LNS.PA.US> <1989Nov19.065842.2745@alembic.acs.com> <1989Nov21.043353.13401@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <21Nov89.35A66D7E@b-tech.mi.org>
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In article <21Nov89.35A66D7E@b-tech.mi.org> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
}>The quicker hack is to increase LBUFLEN (and probably CBUFLEN) in
}>common.h; fend off all sorts of different buffer overflows.  4096 is [...]
}Another quick but efficient way is to increase just the size of
}buf[] and cmd_buf[] in common.h.

Both these "fixes" just rely on somebody else shortening the References: 
line before your site bombs out.

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