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- 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.
-