cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (05/04/88)
A couple of dumb questions about ARP:
a) Is there some cookbook or other guidance for getting it set up?
My WB disk has something like 40 free blocks on it, so I obviously
can't just merge the ARP stuff in. Is there some "installation" guide
for what things you can move/delete when you put ARP in place?
b) With all of the words about Manx/Lattice bindings in the prodocs, I have
a pretty bizarre question: I assume that arp.library is compatible
with Basic, yes? I can handle cobbling up a .bmap file for it (I'm
pretty sure), but all that stuff about compiler differences and using
the right loader and stuff confused me a bit (as a non-combatant in the
C wars, all the doings and details are a bit mysterious...alink and
blink (you'd think C would use "Clink", no?), per-compiler "bindings" --
what's that? Just a fancy name for "include file"? etc...).
c) Are the *unformatted* documents available (that is, the source
files). They surely look machine-formatted -- If I could get at
the sources, I could take a run at two things: (1) making the
thing suitable for printing on a laserprinter (which primarily
means replacing the funny escape sequences with something more
palatable to our printer here, although being able to take
advantage of using a real (ie., not fixed width) font and the like
would be nice, too), and (2) Icould probably get it scaled down to
6x9, which I find to be a handier size for a manual (you just GBC
bind it and you're home free). [if I succeed in this, I'd be happy
to share the "improved" (by my standards) manuals with the rest of
you]
d) Does Microsmiths really exist? I thought I'd spare you-all these dumb
questions by calling Microsmiths directly (after all, they're right here
in Cambridge), but it's been a week now and I've never been able to get
anyone to answer the phone.
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/___/_(<_/ (_/) )_(_(<_ cosell@bbn.comdavidg@killer.UUCP (David Guntner) (05/05/88)
in article <24183@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) says: > a) Is there some cookbook or other guidance for getting it set up? > My WB disk has something like 40 free blocks on it, so I obviously > can't just merge the ARP stuff in. Is there some "installation" guide > for what things you can move/delete when you put ARP in place? I could be completely off the wall here, but I believe the whole idea is to replace all your AmigaDOS commands with th corrisponding (sp?) ARP command (if you have the ARP command on your ARP disk, copy it over to your WorkBench disk). The ARP commands are smaller than their AmigaDOS counterparts, so I'm sure that you'll find that you have more space on your disk after copying everything over. --Dave -- David Guntner UUCP: {ihnp4!att-ih, ames}!killer!davidg INET: davidg@killer.UUCP "...Different ship, but she's got a good name. Treat --Admiral L. McCoy her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home." "Encounter at Farpoint"
kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) (05/06/88)
In article <3992@killer.UUCP>, davidg@killer.UUCP (David Guntner) writes: > in article <24183@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) says: > > a) Is there some cookbook or other guidance for getting it set up? > > My WB disk has something like 40 free blocks on it, so I obviously > > can't just merge the ARP stuff in. Is there some "installation" guide > > for what things you can move/delete when you put ARP in place? > > I could be completely off the wall here, but I believe the whole idea is to > replace all your AmigaDOS commands with th corrisponding (sp?) ARP command (if > you have the ARP command on your ARP disk, copy it over to your WorkBench disk). Well, there is one other thing you *must* do: copy "arp.library" to your libs: directory. I suggest copying the library first, then the actual ARP commands (to c:). If you try doing it the other way around, you'll find out that the ARP version of "copy" won't work, since it needs to open the arp.library ... Since your WB is nearly full, you may need to delete some of the AmigaDOS cmds that the ARP versions will replace. Lastly, you *may* want to use the "set" command to tailor the way the copy command works, and the format used to display the date. This is all documented in the "man pages". As always, do this on a COPY of your WB floppy, in case you run into any problems! Oh, and for anyone who is using an older version of the ARP commands, you'll need to reboot so that the new version of arp.library will get OpenLibrary()'d. /kim -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,uunet,oliveb,cbosgd,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25