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        !             5: Copyright 1990,1991,1992 Eric R. Smith. All rights reserved. See the file
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        !             7: "copying" for conditions of redistribution.
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        !             9: ========================================================================
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        !            13: Terminals connected to the MODEMx or MIDI ports don't act like the console
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        !            15: terminal; special characters (e.g. ^C or ^Z) are not always interpreted.
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        !            17: Moreover, Fselect on serial devices doesn't work (specifically, if no
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        !            19: timeout is given for the Fselect, and no data is available on the serial
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        !            21: device, the Fselect will hang forever).
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        !            25: Files with null names won't show up in Fsfirst/Fsnext.
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        !            29: The date and time are not necessarily correct for volume labels created under
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        !            31: MiNT.
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        !            35: Only the TOS file system checks in Fdelete for the read-only bit of a file.
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        !            39: If more than 999 pipes are created at once, the system will hang.
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        !            43: A symbolic link to file '\FOO' will always point to the file "FOO" in the
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        !            45: directory of the current drive of the reading process, *not* the root of the
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        !            47: drive the link is located on. If an explicit drive letter is given (e.g.
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        !            49: A:\FOO) the link will work correctly.
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        !            53: Only the first process to Fselect() on a device will be woken up when data
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        !            55: arrives for the device. (This could be called a feature??)
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        !            59: With toswin installed: put a write protected floppy in the drive. Run gulam.
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        !            61: Do something that writes to the drive. When the critical error handler comes
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        !            63: up, type some letters (e.g. "hi ") before hitting return or clicking a button.
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        !            65: Result: a crash or hang up. This could be a bug in MiNT, or in GEM, or in
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        !            67: toswin, or gulam, or all 4.
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