[TAG] Compliments to you all.

[Steve Brown]

Hi Ben,

> Actually, I was talking about my 5-part "Learning Perl" series. Take a
> look at <http://linuxgazette.net/authors/okopnik.html>.

Aahh, I'd forgotten about these gems, thank you.

> As Thomas has already noted (something I originally missed due to being
> tired and mostly asleep), it's a buffer overflow due to strncpy not
> terminating the string - a truly idiotic design decision. From libc's
> info:

Nope, I would never have got this, I'll still run the example to see what
happens 'first hand' though.

> > I'm still challenged with a
> > modem, I've got a HCF modem that refused to work correctly when I
upgraded
> > my motherboard, I'm going to dig it out and play with it some more
[grin].
>
> <http://linmodems.org> :)
>
Yeah, my modem *used* to work, but I just upgraded from a Duron to Athlon XP
on a new board and the modem didn't work correctly, as I had a spare
external modem, although only 33.6 kbs, I used that instead, too lazy to
sort it out. Now my dog's busy digesting big chunks of the power supply I'm
forced to get HCF modem running.

Take care,

Steve Brown.


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