More problem in pre-R5

More problem in pre-R5

[Martin Costabel]

Hi,

I observed the following bug in the "more" program in pre-R5:
If I type "/" to do an expression search, then what I type after the "/"
is invisible, like when you type passwords. I can type blindly, and the
search works, but this is kind of annoying.

Does anyone else see this?

I might add that this problem does not appear if I use "less" instead of
"more". I tried several versions of util-linux, the latest being
util-linux-2.9h-9a. The problem stays the same. I haven't seen it in R4.

Any ideas?

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Re: More problem in pre-R5

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Does anyone else see this?

used to. Upgrade ncurses as well.

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Re: More problem in pre-R5

[Martin Costabel]

Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone else see this?
> 
> used to. Upgrade ncurses as well.

Thanks. Just upgraded; still doesn't work. What version of ncurses is
recommended?

root[272]#rpm -qa |grep ncur
ncurses3-1.9.9e-8
ncurses-devel-4.2-12a
ncurses-4.2-12a

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Re: More problem in pre-R5

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Tom Rini wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone else see this?
> > 
> > used to. Upgrade ncurses as well.
> 
> Thanks. Just upgraded; still doesn't work. What version of ncurses is
> recommended?

Gimmie a few.. <g>  I'm looking at a few things now.

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Re: More problem in pre-R5

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
> > Tom Rini wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Does anyone else see this?
> > > 
> > > used to. Upgrade ncurses as well.
> > 
> > Thanks. Just upgraded; still doesn't work. What version of ncurses is
> > recommended?
> 
> Gimmie a few.. <g>  I'm looking at a few things now.

It's been a few, fix found.  For those of you that just can't wait/use
less, grab util-linux 2.9i and change HAVE_SHADOW=yes to no (current
behavior) and build.

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Re: More problem in pre-R5

[Martin Costabel]

Thanks for the hint. It is working now. So, if anyone else is listening:
It finally was just this little typo in more.c:

--- util-linux-2.9h/text-utils/more.c   Tue Jan 26 01:09:08 1999
+++ util-linux-2.9i/text-utils/more.c   Thu Jan 28 16:11:00 1999
@@ -1800,7 +1800,7 @@
 
 void errwrite1 (char *sym)
 {
-    write (fileno(stderr), &sym, 1);
+    write (fileno(stderr), sym, 1);
 }
 
 void error (char *mess)

I didn't yet have the courage to compile the whole
util-linux-2.9i.tar.gz, considering that the 2.9h.src.rpm contains
plenty of patches and the 2.9h spec together with the 2.9i.tar.gz didn't
want to build.
Or is there a util-linux-2.9i.src.rpm around?

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Martin

Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:
> >
> > > Tom Rini wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Does anyone else see this?
> > > >
> > > > used to. Upgrade ncurses as well.
> > >
> > > Thanks. Just upgraded; still doesn't work. What version of ncurses is
> > > recommended?
> >
> > Gimmie a few.. <g>  I'm looking at a few things now.
> 
> It's been a few, fix found.  For those of you that just can't wait/use
> less, grab util-linux 2.9i and change HAVE_SHADOW=yes to no (current
> behavior) and build.
> 
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> Tom Rini (TR1265)
> http://dobbstown.yeti.edu/

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Re: More problem in pre-R5

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Thanks for the hint. It is working now. So, if anyone else is listening:
> It finally was just this little typo in more.c:
[snip]

Neat.  Was gonna look for things like that if 2.9i didn't work

> Or is there a util-linux-2.9i.src.rpm around?

next time mirrors are run.

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