hammond@cs.albany.edu (William F Hammond) (12/31/90)
In a previous article Kent Paul Dolan writes: > From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga > Subject: Re: VLT Help needed > Message-ID: <1990Dec30.163531.22293@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> > Date: 30 Dec 90 16:35:31 GMT > References: <8pwxo8v@Unify.Com> > Distribution: na > Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix > Lines: 29 > > . . . > "ARP" is the AmigaDOS Replacement Project, a cooperative PD code effort > that got off to a fair start, but died for lack of interest with the > code still buggy and the source unavailable to fix it up. . . . "ARP" is dead? Or is it merely on hold waiting for OS 2.0 to mature? The current version is widely used here, and it seems to be pretty clean. > . . . It had the > advantage that the library and executables were small and did a few nice > things that AmigaDOS didn't, ... Well, there is also the Shell which features (1) commmand line substitution (2) support for concurrent piping (i.e., "PIP:") (3) scripts on the fly (simply pipe your script into "Execute") (4) modest enhancements in the Shell script language > ... the _BIG_ disadvantage that they were > incompatible with the CLI script and wildcard formats. . . . A few native scripts will break when run with ARP commands. The few failures of backward compatibility are documented, and, in any case, are justified by a trade-off for the increased power of the ARP commands in the hands of an interactive user. > . . . > AmigaOS has long passed the point where ARP is useful or safe. But while we're still waiting for OS 2.0, most of my colleagues with Amigas are still using ARP. > Kent, the man from xanth. > <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics 518-442-4625 SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222 hammond@leah.albany.edu wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------