Os9 kermit (Glen Seaton/Robert Larson/James Jones)  (01/26/86) (ral)


Compilation warnings:

  Use the switches defined in os9ker.hlp to configure for your system.

  Compilation on a coco takes 165 pages of free memory, and takes about
40 min. on a stock system.  

  Single sided disk users will have to move the documentation, etc. 
elsewhere to have enough room for the .r files.

Known bugs:

  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.         

  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.)

  Messages should go to stderr rather than stdout.

  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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Still untested:

  Os9 system acting as host, especially in server mode.



Desired features:

  Speed setting of external line.  (Use xmode or tmode currently.)

  Simple single compile switches for systems other that COCO.

  More server functions, for both host and guest modes.

  8-bit quoting.

  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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