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- Amiga TCP/IP Release 1.0 Addendum
-
- There are often changes and additions in a software product after the
- manual is printed. This file contains a listing of these differences,
- as well as known problems which are intended to be fixed in a future
- release.
-
-
- ----- General -----
-
- Many commands do not respond to control-c or breaks. However most
- will time out in 30 seconds or less and give a message if a needed
- resource is not available.
-
- At present there is no way to terminate a server process except to
- reboot.
-
-
- ----- Utilities -----
-
- ftp
- ---
- The current version of ftp does not use the .netrc file. Ignore the
- message "netrc: Permission to access object is denied" that is displayed
- after an ftp connection is made.
-
- In the current release, ftp command is not robust and does not recover
- well if an error does occur. Exit from ftp with the quit command and
- retry if an error occurs.
-
- lance-test
- ----------
- When an ethernet address is reported, ignore a series of F's that may
- be displayed. Example: 00:FFFFFF23:00:10:44:A4 should be read as
- 00:23:00:10:44:A4.
-
- To abort lance-test, type control-c first, then press return. If the
- control-c is omitted, it may be necessary to reboot.
-
- ls
- --
- The current "ls" command is based on the public domain ls written by
- Justin V. McCormick. Type "ls -?" for more information.
-
- rcp
- ---
- Unreliable system operation or crashes may occur when several recursive
- rcp commands are run at the same time to or from the same Amiga.
-
- rlogin
- ------
- See the file "rlogin.doc" for more information on rlogin. Many
- improvements and additions have been made since the manual was
- printed. New features include resizable windows as well as full
- custom screen mode, cut & paste, and support for different fonts.
-
- Rlogin -c now calculates screen height from the PAL/NTSC jumper
- setting. If the PAL/NTSC setting in Prefs does not match, screen
- height is incorrect in rlogin -c. Rlogin -c incorrectly calculates
- screen width in Superhires modes.
-
- The rlogin command has a corresponding termcap file in the inet:Docs
- directory. A termcap file is a standardized description of a
- terminal's capabilities that allows all applications that use termcap
- to run on any type of terminal. The termcap file can be used directly
- with remote hosts, such as BSD UNIX, that use termcap for terminal
- handling.
-
- Terminfo is another terminal description method. System V UNIX
- machines, including Amiga UNIX, provide support for both terminfo and
- termcap, although most newer applications use only terminfo. The
- captoinfo and tic commands can be used to convert the termcap to an
- equivalent terminfo. A terminfo.src file is also included for those
- who do not have the captoinfo command. See the captoinfo and tic man
- pages on your UNIX machine for more detail.
-
- rloginvt
- --------
- Rloginvt may be used instead of rlogin for applications that
- understand only vt100 type terminals. Rloginvt uses a custom screen
- and lacks resizable windows, cut & paste, and support for different
- fonts.
-
- Rloginvt is most usable in 24 line, 80 column, vt100 mode. Text may
- be misplaced in 49 line mode when an application uses certain screen
- commands. This misplacement can insert, delete or change the wrong
- information when editors and some other screen applications are used.
- Emulations other than vt100 are incomplete.
-
- Rloginvt will be replaced in a future version.
-
- tftp
- ----
- Tftp and tftpd were found to be unreliable and are not included in
- this release.
-
-
- ----- Configuration -----
-
- The umask value must be converted from the usual octal form into
- decimal. For example, to set umask to 022, enter umask=18 in
- s:inet.config. Octal will be supported in a future release.
-
- Make sure internet numbers in the inet:db/hosts file are entered
- correctly. If any of the four segments are greater than 255, a
- modulo 256 of the segment value is used without any error message.
- For example, if 190.227.1.1 is accidentally entered as 190.277.1.1,
- the 277 will be stored as 21. This will go undetected until
- communications fail to and from machines 190.227.1.1 or 190.21.1.1.
-
-
- ----- NFS File System -----
-
- AmigaDOS exclusive file locks are not supported on NFS files.
- Applications that use exclusive locks cannot safely share NFS files.
-
- Amiga TCP/IP NFS does not recognize symbolic links. A symbolic link
- appears as an ordinary file containing the name of the linked file.
-
- The AmigaDOS R, W, and E protection bits are mapped to NFS r, w, and
- x, respectively. The AmigaDOS bit is treated as set when
- the corresponding NFS bit is set for any of user, group, or other.
-
- The AmigaDOS S,P,A and D file protection bits are not supported by
- NFS. On the AmigaDOS side, the S,P and A bits are treated as always
- unset, and the D bit as always set. A side effect is that files
- copied to NFS and back will have D set and S, P and A unset.
-
- The Amiga TCP/IP "chmod" command can set or unset user, group and other
- protections separately.
-
- AmigaDOS "protect" always sets or unsets user, group, and other
- simultaneously.
-
- NFS file protections cannot be changed by the Workbench Information
- (Info) command.
-
- Do NOT use ".." to refer to a parent directory in an NFS volume.
- Using ".." can extend above the NFS mount point and may crash the
- Amiga. USE the normal "/" AmigaDOS equivalent, it is safe. The
- ".." will work normally when typed directly to a UNIX host through
- rlogin or rloginvt.
-
- nfsmgr
- ------
- Nfsmgr has a new option "case". This keyword tells the NFS software
- to stop doing any case manipulations and use the same case sensitivity
- as the remote volume. Currently the Amiga NFS software does a case-
- insensitive search of a remote directory every time you create a file.
- This prevents you from creating a "Foo" and a "foo" file. Case is
- preserved, just like normal for the Amiga.
-
- If you mount a volume using the "case" keyword, this check is
- eliminated. This speeds up some operations considerably and may be
- useful for people who desire case-sensitivity.
-
- example: nfsmgr mount unixhost:/usr/tmp tmp: case
-