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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Student at Wageningen Agricultural University <look AT messa DOT ge>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:13:51 +0000
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Subject: Re: Little bug in RHIDE
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Student at Wageningen Agricultural University <look AT messa DOT ge> wrote:

> I think I found a little bug in RHIDE. Because Robert Höhne (the author)
> wishes that bug reports are reported on this list first, here it is:
> File->Open / F3 opens the 'Open a file' window. The bug shows itself
> (under Windows 95 and 98) when I try to select a file in that window
> which name is larger than 127 (yep, I found that by pure chance :)
> characters. When I try to do that, RHIDE immediately exits without any
> message.
> 127 characters is the boundary. It doesn't matter if the filename ends
> with '.c' or not. It also doesn't matter if the filename contains
> several periods, one period or none at all.
> I have reinstalled RHIDE in a directory of it's own (just extracted the
> official rhide14b.zip) and I still got this behaviour. Ofcourse, there
> is no problem when I use the -n option.

Is only the name of the file? or the path too?
As the problem looks like some (silly) buffer overflow in TVision I'll check 
it with my editor too.

Greetings, SET 
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