Debian bug report logs - #1697
finger sometimes produces garbage characters in output

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Subject: Re: Bug#1697: finger sometimes produces garbage characters in output
To: ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 17:00:29 +0100 (MET)
From: "Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
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Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > See the transcript below - note the funny high-bit-set characters at
> > > the start of each `n minutes m seconds idle' line.  I have uuencoded
> > > the transcript to prevent the characters being mangled in
> > > transmission.
> > 
> > Funny, another bug that I can't reproduce :-). Anyway, could you please
> > try the following version and drop me a note if it works for you?
> 
> Thanks, when I install that as /usr/bin/finger it solves the funny
> characters problem (which only occurs if I do a remote finger).  [...]

I'll close this bug report. I'll leave the finger/timezone bug report
open.


Peter

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Subject: finger sometimes produces garbage characters in output

Package: netstd
Version: 1.17-1

See the transcript below - note the funny high-bit-set characters at
the start of each `n minutes m seconds idle' line.  I have uuencoded
the transcript to prevent the characters being mangled in
transmission.

Ian.

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