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From: mj@myrias.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bug in gulam alpha version - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 12:11:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 12:11:03 1987
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Reply-To: mj@myriasa.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann)
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   Gulam is a very nice shell, but this is obviously alpha version 
and IT HAS number of bugs (or places with a weird behaviour :-)).
For example, try to copy a file to a write protected floppy.  Gulam 
will happily ablige, but instead to disk it will dump the file to
your own screen.  You may even argue, that this is a "feature" for
text files, but if you are dealing with 100K binary results may be
(hm...) rather interesting.  An attempt to break the operation will
crash your computer with 2 bombs.

   I have also experienced strange crashes after 3 or 4 file transfers.
It does not matter if I was using a built-in xmodem, or some external
program.  They were triggered by something innocent, like "ls" and
ended up with two, three or four bombs (a phase of the moon, I suppose).

   Other things.  If you will swap floppies, a new one won;t be
recognized utntil you will switch to its root directory and execute
"ls" command.  "rehash" has sometimes beneficial effects, but not
allways.

   A file >foo.c was probably created by an attempt append stdout
to foo.c, by typing somthing like "ls >>foo.c".  This does not work!
At lest not the way you would think so that it would.  I also miss
an option of saving te session in a file.

   But I still like it. :-).   Does somebody kepp track of all these
things.  I am sure theat they were rediscovered 100 times.

   Michal Jaegermann
   Myrias Research Corporation
   ...ihnp4!alberta!myrias!mj