Subject: Bug#4307: telnet and 256+ character pastes

From: Richard Kettlewell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 09:56:52 +0100 (BST)

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

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