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- NOTE: The following is an English transcription of our own internal
- documentation telling us what Fnordadel bugs are currently known and either
- undiagnosed, or unresolved. It should serve to inform you of potential
- problem areas with your system. If you encounter any of these bugs, don't
- avoid telling us on the assumption that we already know what's behind them.
- Sometimes we simply haven't a clue, and your input might make the difference
- in solving the problem.
- If you see a bug listed here with your name on it as the reporter, please
- give us any follow-up information you may find.
-
- -Adrian & Royce
-
-
- Being a list of known/unknown Fnordadel bugs/problems
- ('???' indicates something strange going on that we can't duplicate)
-
- - "OUT OF INTERNAL MEMORY; USE FOLDR100 TO GET MORE!!!" On TOS 1.4 systems, we
- have seen configur.tos crash the system with the above TOS error. Installing
- foldr100.tos in your \auto folder seems to eliminate the problem. We don't
- know what is behind this, or if it's a problem on any other TOS version.
- - [B]lock replace in the message editor is broken. Enter a unique start
- string and non-unique end string; say "NO!" to first match and searching
- mysteriously stops without finding later matches. We'll fix this when we
- redo the internals of the edit commands.
- - When moving a public message to Mail>, no recipient is prompted for. As a
- temporary fix, we disallowed moving to Mail> some time ago. We'd like to
- make things work right sometime.
- - .EXM fargs up messages that contains CRs and no LFs. It should behave like
- [F]ile-grab, and properly convert the CRs. We've seen this problem esp.
- with messages uploaded from Amigas; most Amiga text editors appear not to use
- LFs at all.
- ???- A few characters of system output (usually room name prompt) get gobbled
- upon return from a door. (Report by Zair TL @ Snickersnack.)
- - If you [F]ile-grab a message into an anonymous room, it defaults to being
- non-anonymous. You must use the an[O]nymous command in the editor to set
- things up correctly before saving.
- ???- Something caused extended commands to be interpreted as single-key
- commands on secret, more than once. The '.' prefix was totally ignored.
- We think we fixed this recently, but since we're not sure what was causing
- the problem, we can't be positive it's now fixed.
- - We've probably gots many utilities that open lock files (citadel.lck)
- before having read ctdltabl.sys. Thus they put the lock file in the wrong
- directory. It should always go in #sysdir. This is a harmless bug, unless
- you're multi-tasking Fnordadel on your ST using AMULTI, MX2 or the like.
- - When a net-mail transfer screws up, the sending node may mark the mail as
- 'sent', even though the receiving node didn't get the mail.
- - When your storage device(s) run out of space, Fnordadel frequently won't
- detect it or else doesn't complain. Log files and room archive files get
- truncated, and ctdltabl.sys probably won't get written if you try to exit.
- ???- Zair TL reports there are unexplained long pauses after users answer 'Y'
- to 'enter as new user' but before system asks for confirmation of user name
- & password. We can't duplicate this, nor have we heard reports confirming
- it from anybody else.
- ???- Darren Boucher @ STonefiST reports that loading GFA Basic or 1st Word
- Plus 3.14 from gulam, and then running Fnordadel (without exitting gulam)
- and using a door that passes a user-name parameter, causes a couple of
- garbage chars to be tacked onto the end of the user-name. His solution is to
- exit gulam before using GFA Basic or 1st Word Plus.
- - ^C and/or keyboard buffer overflow can blow the system away. It happens for
- sure after a file transfer times out, and at the room prompt. Might have
- something to do with the status line update code. The solution for now is:
- don't use ^C or hammer on the keyboard if the system is busy.
- ???- .T(erminate) P(unt) may not be working right for newish callers (less
- than 8 calls). Reported by kbad @ Virtuality.
- - ;R(ead) doesn't do anything differently than .R(ead). We discovered this
- shortly before the v1.32 release was sent out. It'll be fixed some time.
- - citfs.tos doesn't work with net node names that contain spaces.
- - clog.tos can't handle user name parameters that contain spaces.
- - If you are sharing an aliased room with a net node, and change the node's
- name, the system does not update the alias.sys file, or give you any kind
- of warning. The next time you exit and restart Fnordadel, it will crash
- because the old node name no longer exists.
- - If you use a high-speed modem with serial port baud-rate locking, file
- transfer time estimates and calllog.sys baud rate logging will be messed up.
- - Under unknown circumstances, the base floor's name disappears. It happened
- to Mr. Neutron, who was able to get things back by just exitting citadel and
- restarting it. It also happened to bill.k @ Sinkhole, who had more trouble.
-