[comp.sys.amiga] mg2a fixes: -w and USE_ARP

acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) (06/24/88)

Those building mg2a with Manx probably want to delete the -w switch on
the ln command.  This generates a db/WACK compatible symbol table, and
increases the executable size by 10K.  If you want to be able to
debug, use -n on cc and -g on ln to get an SDB debug file without
increasing the executable size at all.

The ARP V1.1 TackOn() command has a bug which prevents dired-mode from
working completely correctly.  mg2a uses so little of ARP right now
that the USE_ARP option slightly increases the size of the code due to
the unused bindings.  FYI, the bug is that the call:
	TackOn(path, file)
where path contains "device_name:" and file contains "" (a zero-length
string) results in the path being truncated to zero length.  This bug
has been reported to ARP support on BIX.

Stephen Walton, representing myself		swalton@solar.stanford.edu
Cal State, Northridge				rckg01m@calstate.BITNET