>  Tracking the source for the problem, I discovered that it was the
>termcap database the responsible.  When the telnet source terminal
>was vt102, the default for cutcp, telnetd got a SIGSEGV.

The termcap string was probably > 1023 characters long.

>  I think all termcap files should be compatible, so this could
>be a problem with libtermcap.  Anyone else got this problem ?
>Is there a solution ?

Get the termcap file from -current.
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