[comp.sys.amiga] shell for use with arp

jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters) (06/28/88)

Awhile back I mentioned that I had a shell that supported arp's resident
command.  I have not had any time to work on it as of late,  so I forced
myself to sit down and write some docs for it to release it as is... maybe
if I get some feedback on it,  I will get motivated to work on it again.
What follows is a uuencoded zoo file of the shell and its docs.

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Brian Waters              <backbone>!---\ 
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blandy@marduk.cs.cornell.edu (Jim Blandy) (06/29/88)

Ahh, you Godlike soul!  (and I haven't even run the thing yet!)  How
generous of you! Hurrah!

How 'bout some SOURCE????  *-}  < raving lunatic programmer grin

	Knowing HOW to do something

is worth more to me (by far) than

	being able to DO it without knowing how.

I'm almost to the point of disassembling ARP's cd...  not that that
would necessarily tell me what I wanted to know...

That is to say, I'm still interested in knowing how to execute c:cd
efficaciously, and how to change one's current directory.  Is it as
simple as unlocking the current directory lock in your process data,
getting a new lock, and stuffing it in there?  (ugh. what a hack.) 
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Jim Blandy - blandy@crnlcs.bitnet
"insects were insects when man was just a burbling whatisit."  - archie