Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.1 When using dselect in the "select" stage, (when the packages lists are up, not when the initial help screen is visible), resizing an X terminal (Eterm specifically, but also occurs in an xterm) causes dselect to die with:
dselect: getch failed: Interrupted system call This also occurs with the version straight out of slink. daniel -- System Information Debian Release: 2.1 Kernel Version: Linux jam 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.1-0.1 GNU C Library: shared libraries ii libncurses4 4.2-3 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-5 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)

