Package: netstd Version: 2.06-1 I pasted a 256 character string from my Emacs into an xterm running `telnet localhost' and it froze. I did the same with a 257 character string and it also froze, but didn't echo the 257th character.
255 characters did not freeze it. Connecting to other Debian systems via telnet also displays this behaviour; but rlogin does not display this behaviour. ^] quit still worked. It's these two thins that make me believe it's the telnet daemon that is at fault. muskogee:richard$ uname -a Linux muskogee 2.0.13 #1 Tue Aug 20 18:45:22 BST 1996 i486 muskogee:richard$ ldd /usr/bin/telnet libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 muskogee:richard$ ldd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 muskogee:richard$ dpkg -l libc5 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii libc5 5.2.18-9 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr muskogee:richard$ dpkg -l ncurses3.0 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-1 Video terminal manipulation: shared librarie -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/