The following reply was made to PR kern/3380; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/3380 misc/screen OOPSes on 64 bit archs [with patch]
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:12:46 -0400 (EDT)

 In article <fa.5L65knfTVI21V7rwkLYNBJQdNUg@ifi.uio.no> you wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/3380; it has been noted by GNATS.
 
 > From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: rhialto@falu.nl
 > Subject: Re: pkg/3380 misc/screen OOPSes on 64 bit archs [with patch]
 > Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:13:44 +0200
 
 >  I found out that my fix only fully works if TERM=vt100 before you start
 >  screen. If TERM=xterm, it only works half: no OOPSes, but the alternate
 >  characters are not shown in the alternate character set (so instead of
 >  line drawing you get some letters).
 >  
 >  This does work on i386 (although that binary was compiled a lot longer
 >  ago). There must be some other 64-bit bug lurking somewhere. It's not
 >  that the termcap entry for xterm is too long, since it is just within
 >  the 1024 bytes mark.
 
 It's within the 1023-byte limit because it was truncated (some data is lost).
 
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