Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: gpm/kernel stuff | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:12:32 +0100 (MET) |
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"Keith Owens writes" |> >ftp://ts×11.mit.edu/pub/linu×/pãckãges/GCC |> > |> >it misses consequently the same characters. rebooting linux solves it and it |> >looks like that it is system wide. e.g. when another user uses cut/paste, |> >the same happens. |> |> Ditto. Corrupt characters, usually one bit flipped. Not a memory |> problem, cut/paste on a different string on a different terminal shows |> the same symptoms. Don't know what causes it but I find the reset |> command clears it, no need for a reboot. This is "reset" from rpm |> ncurses-1.9.9e-2. |> |> |> Assuming that you copied/pasted the string from your terminal, I can see (in my 8-bit-clean textedit window :) that there are characters similar to the one which should be there:
a cross instead of the x in tsx-11 same in linux a-tilde instead of a in packages
In fact, at first glance I thought it had something to do with parity issues... What does a "reset" sent to a terminal do ? (UTSL, yes, I know) - Perhaps some gpm wierdness ? (Just a shot in the dark.)
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