CURRENT KNOWN BUGS/PROBLEMS WITH AMIGA KERMIT 7.0.196 - 11 September 1999

Stephen Walton (stephen.walton@csun.edu)

A correct CKIXLA.C (character translation module) has not yet been done for
the Amiga.  In principle, it should just be a matter of making a slightly
modified CKUXLA.C which knows that the internal file character set is, in
fact, ISO Latin-1.

The system(), getcwd(), and chdir() functions in ckiutl.c may no longer
be needed.  They are not needed under Manx, and have been commented out
in favor of the routines of the same name in the Manx libraries. 
Nevertheless, here is the comment about the getcwd() routine in ckiutl.c
from the last version of this file: 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, and this should be done;  a previous bug
in the RAM: handler has been fixed.

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.

The Manx C compiler is now obsolete, and the Makefile for building
Kermit (CKIKER.MAK) as well as the sources would need some work to
allow building on this compiler.  This code has also not been built
using Amiga GCC, at least not by me.