Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98655
minicom cannot use zmodem to send files with spaces in their names
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:31 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: When minicom is told to send files using an external application, such as "sz", it writes a command-line into a buffer and execs the buffer. minicom does not escape the filenames in any way, so when fastexec() tokenizes the command-line, it breaks the filename at the spaces. sz then complains that the files do not exist (or sends them, if the happen to exist). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): minicom-2.00.0-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a one-byte file named "filename with spaces" 2.Run minicom 3.Press ALT+A - S to send the file. Actual Results: sz complains that it can't send "filename" or "with" or "spaces" because there is no such file or directory. Expected Results: It should have sent the file "filename with spaces". Additional info: Make sure that the file contains at least one byte. My console gets wedged when I try to send zero-byte files. I don't know if this is a problem with sz, rz, or minicom.
*** Bug 98656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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I'm sorry, I am no longer an embedded programmer and I don't have the setup to determine if this bug still exists in FC 5. Still, this bug, and the one that was marked as a duplicate of this bug, have pretty good repro steps, so the owner of minicom should be able to quickly determine if this bug still exists.
Fixed in minicom-2.2-1.fc7.