Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!oliveb!amdahl!acs
From: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VT100 Rel 2.8 Bug?
Summary: Yup, it's a BUG
Message-ID: <32733@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 22 May 88 07:39:31 GMT
References: <226@nlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <226@nlgvax.UUCP> hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam) writes:
>When I give the Kermit BYE command in VT100 it crashes with an illegal
>instruction exception (#4). This happens in the code one distributed some
>time ago.
>
>Has anyone noticed this also? Is it a known bug? Is there a patch?

Yes, I've noticed it (and I'm the maintainer).  There is a patch version 
coming out shortly which fixes this and several bugs (this is the only
guru-type bug, by the way...the other problems deal with comments on lines
in script files and support for over-scan).  Anyway, the fix for this
particular problem is simple...in saybye() in kermit.c simply AllocMem the
2 buffers (if they aren't already allocated), send the packet then FreeMem
them.

>It's still the best terminal emulator/kermit I've come across. Thanks for
>maintaining it!

I thank you and, I'm sure, all of the other contributors thank you, too!

>-- 
>Hans Zuidam                                    E-Mail: hans@nlgvax.UUCP

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