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----- Forwarded message from Andy Farkas <andy@bradfieldprichard.com.au> -----

>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>$ perl -mDigest::MD5 -e 'print pack("H*",Digest::MD5::md5("test"))' >ert
>>$ wc ert
>>     0       1       8 ert
>>$ hexdump -C ert
>>00000000  9f 4d f1 3c ae 73 67 46                           |.M.<.sgF|
>>00000008
>>$ cat ert
>>
>>At this point it hangs; sending ^Q doesn't help. But if you press cursor-up
>>a few times it comes back to life.
...
>
>Oddly, a real vt220 would do the same thing, but neither has any use for
>the content of the string.

A real VT220 does NOT hang. It prints "Mn<?sgF" (the n has a ~ on top,
and the ? is backwards). I get a prompt back straight away, and everything
stays normal.

-andyf

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