Syslinux - Jan 2013 - 5.01 DISPLAY file last line

There is a problem with the last line of DISPLAY files in Syslinux 
5.01.

  *** syslinux.cfg start ***

DEFAULT cat1
PROMPT 1
F1 help.txt
LABEL cat1
COM32 cat.c32
APPEND help.txt

  *** syslinux.cfg end ***

  *** help.txt start ***
LINE 1 OF help.txt
LINE 2 OF help.txt
LINE 3 OF help.txt
  *** help.txt end ***

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.

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.

Something similar can be seen when using menu.c32. If you are seeing 
a menu on the screen (with default colors) and you press [ESC] so to 
get the "boot:" prompt, then:

A_ in Syslinux 4.06 (menu.c32), the background color is still the 
same, except behind the "boot:" prompt words (only).
B_ in Syslinux 5.01 (menu.c32), the background color is still the 
same, except behind the complete screen row where the "boot:" prompt 
is displayed.

The aesthetic difference between "A" and "B" is not a
problem IMHO. I
am just mentioning it because it may give some clue about the reason 
for the problem described above regarding the last line of DISPLAY 
files and the "boot:" prompt overwriting it.

BTW, DISPLAY files were having problems with the _first_ line before 
(during some 5.xx pre-releases) and cat.c32 was having this problem 
with the _last_ line (also during some 5.xx pre-releases). Those two 
issues were resolved already. Although it may (or may not) be related 
to those, this new report is about the resulting behavior for the 
_last_ line of DISPLAY files.

TIA,
Ady.

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.

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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