🚀 go-pugleaf

I found the following excerpt from ST Report interesting and thought I'd
pass this on to the list.  Comments within square brackets "[]" belong,
I think, to Gred Lindahl (gl8f@bessel.acc.virginia.edu).  Personally,
I'd like to see an official announcement from Atari Corp.

cheers,
-c
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                   *---== ST REPORT ONLINE MAGAZINE ==---*
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                      "The Original Online ST Magazine"
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  June 23, 1989                                              Vol III No.93

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> User Input!  STReport OnLine?    Ongoing Current Issues!
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 From : DAVE LOCKWOOD at THE CONTROL ROOM ST! Fnet 403

     After hearing so many rumors about what TOS 1.4 does, and does not do,
 I've decided  to put together a list of bugs/foibles/mis-features etc. for
 TOS.  We, the users, in order to form a more perfect conception of the new
 TOS, to  establish once  and for all what does and does not work, will add
 to and edit this list until it contains the best knowledge we can find.

     STReport  will  carry  this  list  until  such  time  as  the official
 specifications list for TOS 1.4 is made available by Atari  Corp.   If you
 have information  to add  to this  list let us know through either
 FNET Node 403, 350 or the best way you can.

 bug/feature/problem/wish         status           Source
 ------------------------------ ---------- ----------------------------
 Flow control (RTS/CTS)         Not fixed  Rumor - Crossnet ST group
 [ fixed. A Pratt. ]
 Famous Malloc bug              Not fixed  Confirmed - A. Pratt/Atari Corp.
 [ "fixed" in that the limit is increased, and programs don't tend to
   trigger this bug anymore anyway. ]
 16 MEG HD partition bug        Fixed      Rumor - Usenet ST newsgroup
 wastes last 2 clusters bug     Not fixed  Confirmed - A. Pratt/Atari Corp.
 [ "feechur", preserved for backward compatibility. ]
 A: motor on after HD boot      Fixed      Rumor - FNET ST users
 Slow desktop disk copy         Fixed      Rumor - FNET ST users
 "Twister" format from desktop  Fixed      Rumor - FNET ST users
 Preserve file date on copy     Fixed      Rumor - FNET ST users
 Extended command line          Not fixed  Rumor - Usenet ST newsgroup
 Works with 68010/20            Not fixed  Rumor - Usenet ST newsgroup
 Installed in new Mega STs      Yes        Rumor - Crossnet ST group
 Available to 520/1040 owners   Not yet    Rumor - Crossnet ST group
 Available to Developers        Yes        Confirmed C. Roberts/Atari Corp.
 Shipping in DTP Systems        Yes        Confirmed C. Roberts/Atari Corp.


 This is the latest information.  PLEASE add to/modify this list.
 Let's try stopping the  spread of  FALSE rumors,  and start  compiling the
 facts. [ Indeed. ]

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