Thanks for your work on this.  I'm in the middle of exam marking
(grading) so cannot help....

John

On 12 January 2012 10:22, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2012-01-11 00:34, William Stein wrote:
>> I should take a look...
> After many *days* of debugging, I think I'm getting somewhere: whether
> or not the errors occur seems to depend on the number of *characters* in
> $DOT_SAGE (and therefore, the number of characters in $HOME) in relation
> to the number of columns on the pty ($COLUMNS).
>
> For the gp interface, trouble occurs when the number of characters in
> $HOME equals $COLUMNS minus 72.
>
> My merger script uses a custom temporary $HOME such that this situation
> occurs in practice.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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