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MiNT 0.96 pl14

MiNT is Not TOS: A Multitasking Operating System Extension for the Atari ST



Copyright 1990,1991,1992 Eric R. Smith. All rights reserved. See the file

"copying" for conditions of redistribution.

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Terminals connected to the MODEMx or MIDI ports don't act like the console

terminal; special characters (e.g. ^C or ^Z) are not always interpreted.

Moreover, Fselect on serial devices doesn't work (specifically, if no

timeout is given for the Fselect, and no data is available on the serial

device, the Fselect will hang forever).



Files with null names won't show up in Fsfirst/Fsnext.



The date and time are not necessarily correct for volume labels created under

MiNT.



Only the TOS file system checks in Fdelete for the read-only bit of a file.



If more than 999 pipes are created at once, the system will hang.



A symbolic link to file '\FOO' will always point to the file "FOO" in the

directory of the current drive of the reading process, *not* the root of the

drive the link is located on. If an explicit drive letter is given (e.g.

A:\FOO) the link will work correctly.



Only the first process to Fselect() on a device will be woken up when data

arrives for the device. (This could be called a feature??)



With toswin installed: put a write protected floppy in the drive. Run gulam.

Do something that writes to the drive. When the critical error handler comes

up, type some letters (e.g. "hi ") before hitting return or clicking a button.

Result: a crash or hang up. This could be a bug in MiNT, or in GEM, or in

toswin, or gulam, or all 4.

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