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Gert Doering schrieb:

> First, please talk English if you post to de.alt.comm.mgetty.  Just do it,
> don't discuss it.

Modifying Usenet into something illogical is worse than making it clickable.



> Most likely, it means exactly this - the input prompt (or one or more
> lines in /etc/issue, bad wording in the error message) expands to more
> than 140 characters after all the escape sequences have been expanded.

The reason IS etc/issue (since it works with a different one), but none of
the lines is more than about 70.



Voila, the historical login prompt of pentagon.army.mil years ago: ;-)
VM/ESA ONLINE
               /@@  /@@     /@@@@@@@     /@@@@@@      /@@@@@@@
              | @@ | @@    | @@__/@@    | @@__/@@    | @@__/@@
              | @@@@@@@    | @@ | @@    | @@ | @@    | @@@@@@@
              | @@__/@@    | @@ @ @@    | @@ | @@    | @@__/@@
              | @@ | @@    | @@@@@@@    | @@@@@@     | @@ | @@
              |/_/ |/_/    |/_____@/    |/_____/     |/_/ |/_/

             YOU HAVE REACHED A U.S. GOVERNMENT COMPUTER SYSTEM.
           UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A VIOLATION OF U.S. CODE TITLE 18.
                  ***** INTRUDERS WILL BE PROSECUTED *****

                      /@@@@@@      /@@@@@@@     /@@@@@@@
                     | @@__/@@    | @@____/    | @@____/
                     | @@ | @@    | @@@@@@@    | @@@@@@@
                     | @@ | @@    |/_____@@    |/_____@@
                     | @@@@@@      /@@@@@@@     /@@@@@@@
                     |/_____/     |/______/    |/______/
    IBM3090                                                   VM/ESA 1.1

 Fill in your USERID and PASSWORD
 (Your password will not appear when you type it)



hajo


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