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Subject: Bug#880: Yet another screen mangling bug in ncurses
Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com
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Resent-Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 13:33:04 GMT
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Date: Mon, 15 May 95 02:26 BST
From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>

Package: ncurses-developer
Version: 1.9.0c-0

To reproduce:

* Install both the experimental testing dselect method and Carl's
experimental hard disk &c method.  (A suitable tarfile containing some
files in /usr/local/lib/dpkg methods is below.)

* As root, type
  echo test topt >/var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt

* As root, run dselect in a mono xterm and select option 1 (Setup).

* Press and hold the down arrow key.  (Release after about 2s.)

The bottom entry in the list becomes corrupted - the first character
(the asterisk) is printed at the end of the previous line, and
everything is shifted up.

I think this only happens if the autorepeat is fast enough to get the
cursor to the bottom of the list without giving ncurses a chance to
refresh the screen on the way.  It certainly doesn't happen if you
step down one line at a time.

NB: this tarfile contains non-working copies of Carl's scripts.  Don't
overwrite any working versions you may have !

Ian.

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bug#880: Acknowledgement (was: Yet another screen mangling bug in ncurses)
In-Reply-To: <m0sAovB-0000XRZ.ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu>
References: <m0sAovB-0000XRZ.ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu>

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Subject: Bug#880: Yet another screen mangling bug in ncurses
Reply-To: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens), debian-bugs@pixar.com
Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com
Resent-From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
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Resent-Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 21:48:15 GMT
Resent-Message-ID: <debian-bugs-handler.880.053021373016943@pixar.com>
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Date: Tue, 30 May 95 14:36 PDT
From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
To: debian-bugs@pixar.com

From: zmbenhal@netcom.com
>Date: Mon, 15 May 95 02:26 BST
>From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
>Subject: Yet another screen mangling bug in ncurses
>Version: 1.9.0c-0
>
>The bottom entry in the list becomes corrupted - the first character
>(the asterisk) is printed at the end of the previous line, and
>everything is shifted up.
>
>I think this only happens if the autorepeat is fast enough to get the
>cursor to the bottom of the list without giving ncurses a chance to
>refresh the screen on the way.  It certainly doesn't happen if you
>step down one line at a time.

This will require more time to investigate, but you might want to try
it with 1.9.2.

Zeyd

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Subject: Bug#880: Info received (was Bug#880 Yet another screen mangling bug in ncurses)
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