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From: "Conrad Scott" <Conrad.Scott@dsl.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: rxvt crash?
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:02:48 +0100
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"Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> This is a known (or at least previously-reported) problem, that
pasting nothing
> into rxvt will hang it.

I've found that pasting a null clipboard will kill rxvt (SEGV) but
pasting an empty string from the clipboard is okay.  I've added
(something like) "echo -n > /dev/clipboard" into my .profile to
avoid this particular problem.

YMMV, HTH, ...

// Conrad




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