#1108296 reportbug: Minicom xmodem send folder selection broken

Package:
minicom
Source:
minicom
Description:
Friendly menu driven serial communication program
Submitter:
Richard Deane
Date:
2025-06-25 08:21:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1108296#5
Date:
2025-06-25 08:19:39 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,
Minicom v2.8 (on raspberry pi 4 )

Defective behaviour verified on v 2.8, 2.9 and 2.10, also across Rpi 4, 5 debian (arm)
and  AMD64 Linux Mint

Pi 5 os is Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) release 12, and minicom 2.8-2

Minicom has a bug on file send. A mismatch between the name of the folder displayed for selection and
 the actual folder name selected. Also some folders missing from minicom directory display.

Bug is reproducible with Github riwide folder of cpm-applications-and-utilities
(download the zip file from github to Linux Downloads folder)

Example (extracting the zip file to Downloads/riwide)

On serial attached cp/m computer use minicom to setup serial console to cp/m machine,
do xm r #utils.lbr, then ctrl-z S to invoke file send, then select xmodem.

Choose folder riwide, get riwide

choose subfolder CPM-applications-and-utilities,  get CPM-applications-and-utilities

Note that the minicom directory display skips the first 7 entries (this looks like a bug),
so that it starts at [MagicWand ...

scroll down to [Utilities ...] , choose with double space-bar , but get another folder e.g. Supercalc
or Perfect Writer. This is a reproducible bug.

Note: I am a retro-computing hobbyist retired from a career in software engineering
 (Digital Research, Novell, Citrix) with strong experience of software test and QA,
which I hope can add weight to my bug report.