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    (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
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In message <610.815682540@time.cdrom.com> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:

>Sorry, but it really is easiest to see the problem with sysinstall!
>The stand-alone utilities don't represent it because they exit
>immediately after the dialog function returns, making stack corruption
>unnoticed.

Well, it was easy, take about 1min to debug :-)
Here quick and durty fix, I assume you can do more correct variant
based on your sysinstall ideas.
(result[] holds all package names separated by newlines).

*** index.c.bak	Mon Nov  6 15:49:24 1995
--- index.c	Mon Nov  6 23:06:05 1995
***************
*** 438,444 ****
      int curr, max;
      PkgNodePtr sp, kp;
      char **nitems;
!     char result[127];
      Boolean hasPackages;
  
      hasPackages = FALSE;
--- 438,444 ----
      int curr, max;
      PkgNodePtr sp, kp;
      char **nitems;
!     char result[127000];
      Boolean hasPackages;
  
      hasPackages = FALSE;
-- 
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