>Number:         17524
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       fmt has some overflow? at 1030 character
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 08 11:51:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5.3_RC2
>Organization:
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD rainier.reedmedia.net 1.5.3_RC2 NetBSD 1.5.3_RC2 (JCR-1.5-20020520) #0: Mon May 20 17:26:50 PDT 2002 reed@rainier.reedmedia.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JCR-1.5-20020520 i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
This is:
$ ident /usr/bin/fmt
/usr/bin/fmt:
     $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.11 2000/06/14 22:52:49 cgd Exp $
     $NetBSD: fmt.c,v 1.11 1999/11/02 21:17:16 jwise Exp $
     $NetBSD: head.c,v 1.8 1998/12/19 16:32:52 christos Exp $

I use fmt to put a bunch of email addresses on one line
and noticed that one email address was changed. So I found that
fmt was having some random character at the 1030th character.
>How-To-Repeat:
jot -s "" 380 1 | fmt 1049 1050
# and look at last few characters
>Fix:
Sorry no fix provided.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: