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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.