[syslinux] 5.01 DISPLAY file last line

[Vanush Misha Paturyan]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:57:19 +0200 Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:

> There is a problem with the last line of DISPLAY files in Syslinux 
> 5.01.
> 
> ...
> 
> Note that the last line in "help.txt" is "LINE 3 OF help.txt" and 
> that there is no CR nor LF characters in that last line.
> 
> When pressing F1, the last line of "help.txt" is "not displayed". Or, 
> more accurately, it is "overwritten" when the "boot:" prompt is 
> displayed.

Looks like a CR (without LF) is being added to the last line of the
help.txt file here?
 
> In Syslinux 5.01, the "boot:" prompt appears at the first column of 
> the row (line) of the screen.
> 
> When using "cat1" (press "enter" in the above syslinux.cfg file) the 
> "boot:" prompt will be displayed in the same last line of "help.txt", 
> but _after_ the last character of the file.

And cat.c32 does not add any characters at all.
 
> ...
> 
> PS: I was searching the old reports in the ML archives so to add 
> their links here (in case they are of some use), but it is getting 
> more difficult to find archived emails when the archives can't be 
> indexed by any web search engine 
> anymore.

I am using google to do this: add
"inurl:www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/" to your search terms. 


-- 
Vanush "Misha" Paturyan
Senior Technical Officer
Room 1.37
Computer Science Department
NUI Maynooth
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