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Here are listed known bugs and odd behaviours.
* CrossDOS
  With MessyDOS being one big bug, the MessyDOS filesystem is part of
  a bug. :-) This means not all things AmigaDOS supports, is supported
  by CrossDOS, too. Especially  Protection bits  are different,
  and  Filenotes  are not supported. Not to mention the 8+3 filename limit.

  A further problem is the missing  date-of-last-change  of the disk.
  Without this  FNC  cannot determine whether something on the disk has
  been changed and even not whether the whole disk has been changed.
  So you have to update FNC manually by pressing  CTRL-P  after a change.

*  MORE 
  If you are on the last page, scroll up some lines and scroll down some
  lines again, you will notice a weird behaviour. This is hard to fix.

*  ALIAS 
  alias list dir ; alias dir list
  does not exchange "dir" and "list", because nested aliases are allowed.
  This is not a bug, this is a feature !

*  Review-Buffer 
  Some commands, especially OS2.0+ only, use other ways to output text
  than dos.library's Write(). As a result this output will not appear
  in the review-buffer. Probably this will be fixed in future.

*  DELETE 
  If you want to delete a link, you have to describe it with wild cards,
  otherwise the original file will be deleted, because the system
  resolves links automatically. I do not have an idea how to work
  around it.

*  MOVE 
  You have to make sure that the destination directory is not moved to
  itself like in "move * temp/". Maybe there are more strange behaviours
  in the MORE command,  I  am waiting for bug-reports. :-)

* DIR, LIST, COPY, DELETE etc.
  Directories nested very much, about more than 50 levels, and using
  recursive option to scan them, cause ZShell to crash. Still looking
  for the bug.

* If you type a command and press Return while an other command (like DIR)
  outputs on the window, it will appear after the next prompt, but it
  will just be put in the history buffer without executing it. Sorry,
  there is no way to fix this, because the Return above is treated as
  Shift-Return by the system. Two solutions:
  1.) Press cursor up (last line in history) and then press Return
  2.) Use "config ctrlkeys WQSEIX[TYHKJLRVFP". With this Shift-Return
      will be the same as Return and CTRL-K will be what Shift-Return
      was before.

*  Filename completion 
  If you have a filename with a space in it, you have to make sure you
  type the quotes around it by yourself, this can hardly be done
  automatically. Press CTRL-F instead of TAB in these cases.

*  PATH 
  If you have multiple assigns (ASSIGN ADD) to your C: (or another)
  directory, PATH will accept only the first one. Add the other
  directories to the path by using "path directoryname".

*  Parser 
  " is converted to " only in some commands like ECHO and ASK,
  but it is not treated as quote, too.