Faré wrote:
After some experimentation, it looks like the problem is a buffer overflow (of all things!) when variable $TERMCAP is too big.
Interesting. And dangerous. But I cannot reproduce it: $ echo $TERMCAP | wc -c 11448 $ cmucl CMU Common Lisp CVS 19d 19d-release (19D), running on frost With core: /usr/lib/cmucl/lisp.core Dumped on: Sat, 2006-12-30 21:27:55+01:00 on frost For support see http://www.cons.org/cmucl/support.html Send bug reports to the debian BTS. or to pvaneynd@debian.org type (help) for help, (quit) to exit, and (demo) to see the demos Loaded subsystems: Python 1.1, target Intel x86 CLOS based on Gerd's PCL 2004/04/14 03:32:47 *
PS: <subliminal>cl-launch</subliminal>
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