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- Os9 kermit (Glen Seaton/Robert Larson/James Jones) (01/26/86) (ral)
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- Compilation warnings:
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- Use the switches defined in os9ker.hlp to configure for your system.
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- Compilation on a coco takes 165 pages of free memory, and takes about
- 40 min. on a stock system.
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- Single sided disk users will have to move the documentation, etc.
- elsewhere to have enough room for the .r files.
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- Known bugs:
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- Server functions were not completely correct when I got them. I tried to
- fix the get and quit functions, but not the actual host server mode. Use
- server functions with caution.
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- Timeout interval is unstable and incorrect. I did not consider this a
- problem worth worrying about. It does do timeouts reliably and with no
- system dependent code. (Except a few compile time constants.)
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- Messages should go to stderr rather than stdout.
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- Connect mode on a Coco bit banger port has been reported to be unreliable.
- The problems is the bit banger port uses more than 90% of the cpu time to
- receive characters at full speed, so insufficent time is left to display them
- one at a time. I have modified the os9con.c routine to do multi-character
- i/o if the sgstat routine returns the number of characters available. It
- would be nice if someone could contribute an interupt driven /t1 driver
- that does this. (possilbly based on the public domain one in the os9 users
- group library.) Note this has yet to be tested on a coco.
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- Spelling in documentation, messages and comments may be incorrect.
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- Still untested:
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- Os9 system acting as host, especially in server mode.
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- Desired features:
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- Speed setting of external line. (Use xmode or tmode currently.)
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- Simple single compile switches for systems other that COCO.
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- More server functions, for both host and guest modes.
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- 8-bit quoting.
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- Make overlap a function of the device being written to. (I.e. QT+ needs it
- for floppy but not ramdisk or hard disk.)
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