Ata@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (John G. Ata) (12/17/86)
Received the Amiga Enhancer the other day and have been on the whole pleased with product. However, there are seems to be some strange bugs lurking there. Specifically: 1) AmigaBasic seems to get into a state (twice so far) where all control characters seem to be displayed as a square "O". This makes all output unreadable as <CR> and <BS> do not perform their proper functions resulting, for example, in the initial copyright messages being displayed as one long line right off the right side of the screen. Rebooting Workbench has no effect, it appears that one must reload Kickstart to have this problem go away. Can anyone explain how this could happen seeing that kickstart is supposed to go into a supposedly write-protected area. Seems like it gets into this state after a long period of copying disks and files. The first time it happened, I had just copied AmigaBasic to another disk, the second time I had transferred the FD1.2 drawer. Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated. 2) If one is setting the time in Preferences, and have just clicked in the minutes, it appears that if the minute increments before you exit Preferences, you will get a "task-held" error immediately upon exiting Preferences. However, if you select the hours digit before exiting, there is no problem. 3) Sometimes, while in a tool, if one changes directories to RAM:, and leaves the tool without changing back, a task held message, or a crash will follow. On the same note, certain tools like AmigaBasic, and PCUtil appear to link to a directory properly when told to, but upon exiting will keep the link active so that a little memory is never returned, and the disk icon will not go away when removed because the system thinks that someone is still using it. Am extremely eager to hear from anyone who is experiencing similar problems, and hope that CA knows about them so that they will be fixed in the next release. John G. Ata