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		VP/ix VERSION 1.1.0 BUG REPORT LIST 
		===================================

LAST UPDATE:	7/22/88

The file contains a listing of all the known bugs in this release
of VP/ix.  Please check this list before reporting a problem.  All the
bugs listed here are in the process of being fixed.  Also, those bugs
that have been resolved since the previous release are listed at the
end of this file.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0001	
		You don't get a beep when you do an illegal cursor
		motion in Lotus 123.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0002
		VP/ix can't run under SHL on serial terminals.
		The keyboard-display initialization IOCTLs seem to fail.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0003		In Microsoft Project (on a monochrome system), if you
		switch to another virtual terminal and back, a cursor gets
		left on the top left of the screen.  Other DOS applications
		may exhibit similar behavior with "confused cursors"
		when switching virtual terminals.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0004		Powermeter has a variety of problems ranging from improper
		displays to exiting prematurely.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0005		When using a monochrome monitor with an EGA card set
		to monochrome mode, entering VP/ix may cause the screen
		to blank out.



BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0006		When you quick-boot VP/ix (vpix -r) or run a DOS command
		from the UNIX prompt, the date is incorrectly set to the date
		of your BOOTIMAGE file instead of the current date.  The
		time is correct (the current time).


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0007		DOS applications which use file locking or record
		locking may not work properly.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0008		Backspacing in dbase III doesn't erase all characters
		when run on a serial terminal.  Other screen update
		problems occur on occasion on serial terminals.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0009		The setup program in Microsoft C version 5.1 blanks the
		screen and appears to be outputting characters, but they
		do not appear on the screen.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0010		Using Procomm, when connecting to some systems, output
		to the screen is garbled in that many characters are
		printed twice.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0011		Serial mice do not work well with Microsoft Windows;
		VP/ix may exit (with or without an error message)
		unexpectedly.  The Microsoft Inport Bus Mouse works fine
		with Windows, and serial mice work fine with other
		DOS applications using the appropriate serial mouse
		driver supplied with the mouse.


========================================================================


The following problems have been resolved since the previous VP/ix
release.  The bug numbers refer to their numbers in the README file
on that release.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0002	
		Procomm (serial communication package) does not hang up
		on the modem on disconnect.  It also cannot keep up with
		large bursts of data.  Other serial communications packages
		may exhibit similar problems.

		Resolution: fixed.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0004		Hitting CTRL and SYSREQ simultaneously on the console when VP/ix
		is at the DOS prompt locks up VP/ix.  

		Resolution: This is actually the way native DOS behaves, and
		is thus not a VP/ix problem.  If this is done by accident,
		simply use CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot VP/ix, or the VP/ix
		Interface Menu to exit VP/ix.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0005		A serial mouse does not work with many applications.

		Resolution: fixed.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0006		The NU program (Norton Utilities 3.10) will not run under VP/ix.
		You get various messages such as, "Divide overflow",
		"Error finding current directory", and
		"General protection fault, cannot emulate".

		Resolution: fixed.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0008		Running Norton Utilities DT (Disk Test), specifying
		F(ile), causes  varied problems. If console and
		a serial terminal are logged on as different users, and
		DT is run from the serial terminal, the console will
		flicker whenever a VT file is read. The serial terminal
		will hang when it attempts to read file TTYP0, requiring
		a kill. If both serial terminal and console are logged on as
		the same user, and DT is run from the serial terminal, when
		a read of TTYP0 is attempted, the entire system crashes,
		requiring a restart with On/Off switch.

		Resolution: fixed.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0009		If you mount a DOS filesystem on a floppy using DOS FSS,
		then get into VP/ix, you can't access the floppy as the A drive,
		as it is busy; this is proper behavior.  But if you then switch
		to another virtual terminal and unmount the floppy and switch
		back to VP/ix, you still cannot access the floppy drive.

		Resolution: the UNIX floppy driver now enforces exclusive
		access to the floppy drive for all UNIX commands.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0010		On some machines, the DOS command "diskcopy a: a:"
		will fail on high-density (1.2M) floppies; on the
		third pass thru the source diskette, read errors occur.

		Resolution: fixed.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0011		If a device such as COM1 or A: cannot be opened 
		when VP/ix is started up (for lack of
		correct permission) there is no error message from
		VP/ix.  When you try to access the device, you get
		a failure message from DOS.

		Resolution: fixed.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0012		Microsoft Word 3.0 does not work on the Z drive
		(UNIX filesystem).  It does work properly on the
		C pseudo-volume drive.

		Resolution: fixed.


BUG #		DESCRIPTION
-----		-----------
0013		On a CGA display, if you run something under VP/ix that
		scrolls the screen and then switch to another virtual
		terminal, the VP/ix process is suspended (sleeps)
		instead of continuing on in the background as it should.

		Resolution: fixed.


The following bugs were not listed in the previous release's README
file, but were both reported and fixed subsequent to that release:

		- Running a DOS command from the UNIX prompt did not
		  work under the C shell (csh).  It now does.

		- The PrintScrn key didn't work.  This is now fixed.

		- Printing to LPT1 output directly to the printer instead
		  of being spooled.  This is now fixed.

		- Quickbooting VP/ix (vpix -r) and switching virtual
		  terminals could hang your VP/ix session.  This is now
		  fixed.

		- Various problems with Hercules display adapters, which
		  should now all be fixed.

		- The DOS tree command did not work.  It now does.

		- Starting a UNIX shell from the VP/ix Interface Menu
		  used to leave the terminal in a raw state, and /dev/tty
		  was not properly set up.  This is fixed.

		- Quitting from the VP/ix Interface Menu used to leave
		  the cursor wherever it last was, which might have been
		  in the middle of a screenful of stuff.  It now refreshes
		  the screen to the way it looked when you entered VP/ix.
		  Quitting using the "quit" command is unchanged.
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