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From: bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2 + terminfo
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.154047.10274@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 90 15:40:47 GMT
References: <3738@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: Sony Communications Products Company, Teaneck, NJ
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In article <3738@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> bhoule@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Bill Houle) writes:
>I have a user who has his own vt100 terminfo file.  It works fine
>with vi and mush in full-screen mode, but Elm does not seem to
>like it.  Operations such as saving options or viewing a message
>cause elm to catch a signal and exit gracefully.  Changing the pager
>does not affect things.  Using the system term entry works fine.
>
>The terminfo file compiles under tic with no errors.  The suspect
>terminfo entry is included for your reading enjoyment.  Any ideas?
>
>[Elm 2.2 PL16, NCR Tower 32/800, V.3]
>
>#
>altkeys|Alternate function key sequences,
 [ ... ]

I had a similar problem once. Try trimming the "Alternate ....  sequences"
to something shorter.  I ran into the same symptoms (no
complaints from tic, but SEGV or SIGBUS at runtime under Elm)
with a terminfo entry which had a rather verbose last name entry.

I suspect that the problem is either 1) overflow of a fixed
buffer in Elm (40 chars, I think), or 2) a bug in the
terminfo/termcrap emulation.  I haven't determined which --
shortening the name made the problem disappear.

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