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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
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Subject: Larn scoreboard bug
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Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 22:53:38 EDT
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   There definitely appears to be some sort of bug in Larn 12.0 that causes
it occasionally to scribble over the scoreboard.  Here is what our scoreboard
looked like after the last time it happened (I have converted control char-
acters to ^x form to avoid munging terminals):

^O^A^X

Do you re^H^@ly want to quit?
^AYes^B or ^ANo^B please?   Do you want to quit? 
^AYes^B or ^ANo^B please?   Do you want to quit^E^@
^AYes^B or ^ANo^B please?   Do you want to quit? 
^AYes^B or ^ANo^B please?   Do you want to quit? 
^AYes^B or ^ANo^B^D^@lease?   Do you want to quit? 
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^AYes^B or ^ANo^B please?   Do you want to quit? 
^AYe^@^@ or ^ANo^B please?   Do you want to quit? ^[[;H^[[2J^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^B^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^I^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^H^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^G^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^




@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^F^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^E^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@

   Obviously the bug is in the quit routine, but before I go digging into the
code I thought I would ask if anyone else has seen and/or solved this problem.

   BTW, we are running larn suid, so the program must in fact have done this.
And it has happened at least twice now.  It is also annoying because when the
program tries to read this munged scorefile the result is a seg fault.  It
would obviously be better if the program detected that the scorefile was not
readable and created a new one.

   -- David desJardins