Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!cgofs.dec.com!drew From: drew@cgofs.dec.com (Steve Drew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Shell 2.07m bug (I don't think so) Message-ID: <8712120433.AA24764@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 12 Dec 87 04:33:30 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 23 -> I found an interesting bug in the shell version 2.07m. -> -> if you type a long line (over 80 characters) with no spaces the machine will -> guru every time. Is some variable defined only to a certain length, and is -> not checked if the input line is too long? -> -> I found this by typing a long line of c's (cccccccccccccc...) -> Sometimes I am reading a manual and part of the manual is on the keyboard and -> repeats a character for a while, so this could happen by accident (it has.) There is no such bug in 2.07M, I'm sure of it. I have been very careful to check the size of the command after finding out from a previous version that manx fexec code only allows us 40 chars for a command name. If you type a command over about 110 chars without any spaces you will get an error message "Error in command name" (same as normal CLI). Are you running CONMAN ? (it would have to handle the command line first). Are you sure you are running an original version of Shell 2.07M ? (its possible that a bug like this did exist in older versions of shell) Steve Drew.