09/21/87 dial_out Known errors in the current release of dial_out. # Associated TR's Description 23 phx20495 dial_out -raw translates LFs typed by the user into CRs transmitted down the comm line. It's difficult to transmit a raw LF. 22 phx18903 "quit" mode should imply tty_ "^hndlquit" mode. 21 phx18645 dial_out raw mode doesn't work in the Video System. 19 phx18127 A recursive invocation of "dial_out -profile X" will terminate X.profile too many times, causing the outer invocation to fault. This error also affects non-recursive uses of dial_out when the profile being used is also being used by another application (e.g. the default command processor profile if the dial_out user just specifies -abbrev and lets the profile default). 18 phx17769 The terminal type specified with dial_out -ttp should be uppercased before the set_term_type control order is issued. 16 phx15559 If using "quit" mode, then any error returned while sending the interrupt because of hitting BREAK causes dial_out to abort the entire invocation. 15 phx16761 phx19733 phx20154 If there is a syntax error in the "-modes" parameter, random errors, and sometimes fatal process errors, can occur. This is because the cleanup handler restores the cl_intermediary, even though the variable used to save the cl_intermediary has not been set. 8 phx16403 If you suspend dial_out, change your tty modes, and then start up the dial_out, when you later exit dial_out your modes will be back the way they were when you started dial_out initially. 7 phx16150 The send_file request faults if the pathname argument is not given. 5 phx16304 The wait request doesn't always clean up its timer. 3 phx16306 The "quit" and "interrupt" requests do not complain if given arguments, although they ignore them. ----------------------------------------------------------- Historical Background This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to computer science knowledge. This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. Multics development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC (1963-1970), renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership of Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent operating systems incorporated Multics principles. Multics was distributed in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe , and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information Systems Inc., as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. . ----------------------------------------------------------- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these programs and their documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,provided that the below copyright notice and historical background appear in all copies and that both the copyright notice and historical background and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of MIT, HIS, BULL or BULL HN not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the programs without specific prior written permission. Copyright 1972 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. Copyright 2006 by BULL HN Information Systems Inc. Copyright 2006 by Bull SAS All Rights Reserved