[101508] in RedHat Linux List
Re: gibberish characters in Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Thu Nov 26 23:53:39 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 22:53:38 -0600 (EST)
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <fred@usinternet.com>
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Chip Rose. wrote:
#When making entries in Netscape (4.05 rpm) via a form or by filling
#in a URL to browse, etc., I keep getting gibberish characters in with
#the stuff I'm typing in. I also get a subprocess diagnostics error
#message (stdout & stdin). Any ideas?
Yes: it's buggy. 4.04 works fine; later betas may as well (I have no
idea; I use 4.04). I had the same problem with 4.05 and got sick to
death of it. It appears to be buffer overflows or somesuch.
Fred
"The road to tyranny, we must never forget,
is the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton,
15 Oct 1995 speech at the University of Connecticut
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