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- KM_TERM Known Bugs :-
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- 1. Medium RES fonts loaded by e.g. Harlekin or FONTSEL.ACC work
- fine on their own but cause KM_TERM to crash when QuickST3 is
- installed.
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- --> This appears to be a bug in QuickST3 concerning the GEMDOS
- 'CCONWS' call. It doesn't occur with Turbo ST or QuickST 2.
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- If you wish to use an alternative screen font with KM_TERM in
- medium RES with QuickST3 installed, use the custom font handling
- incorporated in the QuickST customiser accessory or better still
- use QUICKSTC.PRG (v2.1)
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- 2. On exiting KM_TERM, the desktop retains the selected KM_TERM
- palette.
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- --> Now fixed in v1.3
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- 3. It has been said that KM_Term can refuse to run after DTerm has
- been used and reports a bad channel error; apparently if you double
- click on KM_Term several times it will eventually run.
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- --> I suspect that DTerm sets up some system variables that
- conflict with the ST's standard VT52 emulation mode. I've noticed
- the same error message if I freely mix Power BASIC's LOCATE & PRINT
- commands with the GEMDOS calls cconws and cconout. As it's an
- internal ST system problem I doubt if it can be fixed, but similar
- problems don't appear to occur with other programs as I've
- regularly run other programs from within KM_Term and vice-versa,
- including some that are much more sophisticated than DTerm (e.g.
- FzDz)
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- In this particular instance, however, it's difficult to attribute
- blame to any individual program since both were being run from the
- ETERNAL RAM disk (which could itself be a cause of a clash I
- suppose)
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- 4. A bug crept into versions 0.7 onwards that prevented the VT52
- esc-Y positioning from working correctly - thanks to Mark Matts for
- helping to discover this one.
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- --> Fixed in version 1.63 onwards (It appears that the lack of setup
- required for KM_Term may have masked this one; KM_Term may have been
- responding to ANSI codes correctly when I assumed it was handling
- VT52!)
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- Actually this one really made me feel small; it seems that about 20
- characters from a bit of good code somehow went missing (spot the
- backspace key repeat!!) but unfortunately the code still made sense
- to the compiler - ah well..
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- 5. The standard rate Mercury call charging was reported as being way
- out.
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- -->When I checked this I couldn't duplicate it, but on closer
- inspection I realised that whereas my call cost rates were separated
- by commas, the standard ones built in to the default configuration
- were separated by spaces; this caused KM_Term to interpret the
- standard rates as [standard] x 10^[economy] - whoops.
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- The simple way to fix this is to change the spaces in the 'T1>' to
- 'T4>' lines to commas with a text editor. The defaults are fixed in
- v1.7.
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- 6. It has been reported that KM_Term doesn't allow the download and
- upload paths to be on different drives to the main program. This
- turned out to be a GEMDOS 'dsetpath' feature (bug!) that is fixed
- with some hard disk driver software (This is why it was overlooked
- unfortunately). I have overcome this problem in v1.8.
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- No other reported bugs at 20 April 1992
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