address@hidden: Bug#154543: grub: --no-curses option echoes the input line and has strange effects on lines longer than 72 chars]

[Jason Thomas]

heres another one.

----- Forwarded message from "Dr. Rafael Sepulveda" <address@hidden> -----

> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:03:18 -0600
> From: "Dr. Rafael Sepulveda" <address@hidden>
> To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Bug#154543: grub: --no-curses option echoes the input line and has 
> strange effects on lines longer than 72 chars
> 
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.92-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> When using the option '--no-curses' on the command line to grub, the input 
> line is echoed; and only happens (as far as I saw) using this option.
> 
> Also, using the same option, lines used as input have to be less than 72 
> characters long. As far as I saw (not well tested) it repeated the input as 
> many times as characters passed the 72 chars limit. Let's supose that you 
> type a 75 chars line. This will make the line truncate in the 72 chars and 
> make the input repeat 3 times, the chars that are needed to complete the 75 
> chars.
> 
> I'm not sure of the repeat thing of the char input thing, but if I'm wrong, 
> then something similar is going on.
> 
>      Rafael
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux fovea 2.4.16 #1 Thu Jun 27 22:58:44 CST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 (ignored: LC_ALL set)
> 
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii  libc6                    2.2.5-12        GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 

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