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From time to time I'm a little impatient (especially if there's a nice new feature announced in fbink I'd really like to have - such as the padding for true type fonts a couple of months ago - thank you very much for this), so I sometimes scan the trac site for new versions if there's not yet an official release.

So, until yesterday, I used fbink@16051 on my Kobo Glo HD without any problems. After the update to fbink@17028, two of my shell scripts stopped working. A little research showed the same problem for fbink@16952.

In one case the previous screen is not completely cleared before the script freezes/crashes. I'm left with faint parallel lines. The relevant part (for displaying stuff with fbink) starts with:

# Show animation
$fbink -k
sleep 2
i=0
for FILE in $ICONFOLDER/$ICONNAME*.png ; do
    i=$(($i+1))
done
j=1
while [ $j -le $i ] ; do
    $fbink -g file=$ICONFOLDER/$ICONNAME$j.png,halign=CENTER,valign=TOP,w=0,h=$iconheight,y=$icontop -h -W A2 #-c
    sleep 0.1
    j=$(($j+1))
done
sleep 5

Do you have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Or why it stopped working?

Another script now stops during/after(?) the display of the icon file:

Spoiler:

# Extract information line for line from download queue:
if [[ "$QUEUEFILE" ]] ; then

  $fbink -mMc -t regular=$font_directory/$font-Regular.otf,$viewport,padding=HORIZONTAL "Download queue found in $QUEUEFILE."
  sleep 3
  $fbink -k
  while read LINE ; do
    $fbink -g file=$ICONFILE,halign=CENTER,valign=TOP,w=0,h=$iconheight,y=$icontop
    
    if [ $(echo $LINE | cut -c 1)  != '#' ] ; then
      LIST=$(echo "$LINE" | sed 's/    /\n/g')
      
.
.
.

      fbink_info=$($fbink -m -t regular=$font_directory/$font-Regular.otf,top=$top,left=$left,right=$right,padding=HORIZONTAL "$title.epub 
downloaded to 
$target_directory
 " -l)
      fbink_infolist=$(echo "$fbink_info" | sed 's/;/\n/g')
      top=$(echo -e "$fbink_infolist" | grep "next_top" | sed -r 's/^next_top=(.*)$/\1/g')
      sleep 5

    fi
  done < "$QUEUEFILE"
else
  $fbink -mMc -t regular=$font_directory/$font-Regular.otf,$viewport,padding=HORIZONTAL "No download queue found."
  sleep 5
fi

It's probably obvious what's going wrong but I can't see it.