>Number:         23216
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       Our xwrits package should be upgraded to 2.21
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 21 15:55:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Wong
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6.1
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD hrududu.wongs.net 1.6.1 NetBSD 1.6.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr 8 12:05:52 UTC 2003 autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/netbsd-1-6/i386/OBJ/autobuild/netbsd-1-6/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

The current package of xwrits is version 2.19. That version has a bug
which causes it to coredump when used with the +multiscreen option.
multiscreen is needed for proper xwrits operation on X servers with
multiple heads.


>How-To-Repeat:

hrududu$ xwrits +multiscreen +typetime=.01
[type some characters here]
Segmentation fault (core dumped)



>Fix:

The changelog for xwrits says that +multiscreen was fixed in 2.20. The
current version of xwrits is 2.21. 

    http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/xwrits/
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