Re: Further to tin crashing - upgrade issues 1.8.3 to 1.9.3

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:38:43PM +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:01:38PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > It's OK, I found it, tin 1.8.3 was using ncurses and my default build
> > of 1.9.3 used curses.  Adding --with-screen=ncurses sorted out my
> > colours problem and I'm now using 1.9.3 without problems.
> > 
> > I'd love to know what was crashing version 1.8.3 though.
> 
> sould have been cause by the article
> 
> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
> From: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 May 2008 19:05:04 GMT
> 
> subject (about 200 lines(!) in this case) overflows fixed the 2KB length
> buffer in rfc1522_do_encode(). this was fixed by Dirk Nimmich a few weeks
> ago.
> 
That probably explains it then!  :-)   It did appear to crash in some
other newsgroups when I c[leared] comp.periphs.printers but not all.
Presumably the above posting is some sort of junk/spam.

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Chris Green