[6607] in bugtraq
Re: feature Re: pine/pico vt control characters bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michal Zalewski)
Sat Apr 25 19:14:42 1998
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 23:32:43 +0200
Reply-To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@BOSS.STASZIC.WAW.PL>
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@BOSS.STASZIC.WAW.PL>
X-To: GvS One <gvs@AGMAR.RU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96r.980426001435.10961A-100000@heart.agmar.ru>
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, GvS One wrote:
> Hm... Guessing... Pine: Main Menu -> Setup -> configure, few lines
> down...
>
> [X] Pass-control-characters-as-is
> ?
>
> ... or something like that. Don't you want to try it turned off while
> reading such message? ;)
Please, read carefully! I said about pico bug - pine shows message expanding
it properly, but if you hit 'reply', or simply view evil txt file with
pico (because pico is called if you're composing message)... Kaboom!
> sorry to bother you, if I'm wrong and you had turned that feature off.
> If so, and pico's control characters passing algorithm is incomplete,
> we should fix it to work with termcap/terminfo databases to determine
> what the characters are treated to be control.
Yes, that's only the partial fix, but 0x9B is 'control character' for
almost every newer terminal.
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