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CURRENT KNOWN BUGS WITH AMIGA KERMIT

No DIAL or SCRIPT commands yet.

The perror() command used under 3.03 does not give helpful error messages,
only error numbers, if available.

Depending on unknown factors of AmigaDOS buffering, it is possible that
wildcard expansion nested inside several levels of directories will cause
significant disk thrashing.  I have not seen this yet, and have avoided
complicating the expansion code by modifying it to not thrash.

When the Amiga's serial output is looped back to its serial input, (through
a modem, say) and the serial device is set to a high baud rate (>100K), when
a break is sent, the Amiga will hang up.

The setup and cleanup of Kermit's window does not currently support
Workbench, and the default window created by Lattice's _main is not
eliminated.  This is easily fixed, but there are other problems with
Workbench invocation.  See below.

The current directory name is constructed from the previous current
directory name and a new relative name.  This is similar to the way the CD
command operates, but it is subject to some peculiarities.  For instance,
'CWD C:' followed by 'CWD /' results in the current directory being the
the parent of C: and a directory name of 'C:/'.  It is possible to
reconstruct the name using the Parent() AmigaDOS function.  (This would
also allow Kermit under the Workbench to reconstruct the current directory
name.)  However, the V1.1 RAM: handler has bugs in the Parent() function,
and so would probably not function with this method.  Under 3.04 Lattice C,
the Lattice functions are used for chdir() and getcwd(), since they seem to
use Parent() reconstruction. (Lattice 3.04 C in general assumes use of the
fixed V1.2 RAM: handler.)

There should be some form of output control and input for one-liners invoked
with the '!' command.

Due to a bug in all C-Kermit's, the transaction timer is not reset before
some remote commands are executed on some other versions of Kermit.  The
reported transaction time will be the elapsed time since the timer was last
reset, or the base (zero) time of the system, midnight January 1, 1978 on
the Amiga.  This can be demonstrated by starting C-Kermit, requesting REMOTE
HELP from a VMS Kermit-32 version 3.2.077 server before any file transfer,
and then requesting STAT.

An audible bell is needed.

The use of 'SET MODEM-TYPE type' to select modem control usage will have
to change when the DIAL command is supported.

The 23 by 77 window in connect mode is incompatible with the assumptions of
many editors.  Emulation of a real terminal like a "not quite" ANSI VT100
would be nice.

Kermit should support AmigaDOS wildcarding, especially for SEND's.  It can
be argued that Unix wildcarding is often appropriate for remote GET's from
the Amiga server, but AmigaDOS wildcarding should be optionally available.