Public bug reported:
Minicom v2.8 (on raspberry pi 4 )
Defective behaviour verified on v 2.8, 2.9 and 2.10, also across Rpi 4,
5 debian (arm) and AMD64 Linux Mint
Pi 5 os is Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) release 12, and minicom 2.8-2
Minicom has a bug on file send. A mismatch between the name of the
folder displayed for selection and the actual folder name selected. Also
some folders missing from minicom directory display.
Hypothesis: With my hobby of retro computing this bug may be more
prevalent due to an increased use of Upper Case file names, or higher
use of special characters in file names (CP/M namespace is not same as
Windows or Linux). I suspect that the sort order, or the data element
connectivity (linked list?) may be handled differently in the code
between displayed and internal-actual directory data.
Bug is reproducible with Github riwide folder of cpm-applications-and-
utilities (download the zip file from github to Linux Downloads folder)
Example (extracting the zip file to Downloads/riwide)
On serial attached cp/m computer use minicom to setup serial console to
cp/m machine, do xm r #utils.lbr, then ctrl-z S to invoke file send,
then select xmodem.
Choose folder riwide, get riwide
choose subfolder CPM-applications-and-utilities, get CPM-applications-
and-utilities
Note that the minicom directory display skips the first 7 entries (this
looks like a bug), so that it starts at [MagicWand ...
scroll down to [Utilities ...] , choose with double space-bar , but get
another folder e.g. Supercalc or Perfect Writer. This is a reproducible
bug.
Note: I am a retro-computing hobbyist retired from a career in software
engineering (Digital Research, Novell, Citrix) with strong experience of
software test and QA, which I hope can add weight to my bug report
** Affects: minicom (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Minicom xmodem send folder selection broken
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