UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (03/11/88)
A couple of days ago I received ARP 1.1 from William Hawes. BOY!! AM I IMPRESSED!! In case you are new here, ARP stands for AmigaDos Replacement Programs, and replaces nearly everything in the C: directory with a smaller, faster, compatible version. Furthermore, wonderful Unix-like manual pages are provided for every command. *** but that's not all *** The commands are much enhanced, using a consistent, powerful Unix-like filename wildcard capability (like egrep's). *** and more... *** Programmers have full access to the elaborate internal structures used to write all these programs, including resource tracking, environment variables, automatic parsing of complex command lines (using the AmigaDos template with extensions), file requestors, and the reason for the project in the first place, the ability to easily call dos commands from within user programs. Th programmer docs include more well-written, haphazardly puncuated man pages. *** Wow! Where do I get it? *** I'm not sure. Don't ask me by Email. I guess Fred Fish will distribute it. In Arc form, it is about 100K, but due to EBCDIC<->Ascii problems, I cannot post them. I will post them on CI$ if they aren't already there. *** Who is ARP? *** Again, I am not sure, except that clearly Charles Heath had a lot to do with it, as I assume did Bill Hawes. The initials SDB and JAT appear here and there. Whoever you all are, thanks again.
UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (03/12/88)
One bothersome about ARP, *to me*, is that the text formatter they used to create the docs has a strange way with tab characters. It seems that if the next non-blank character happens to fall on a position divisable by 8, it uses a tab, even if it is only putting out a normal space between two words. It also sometimes uses tabs as the beginning of lines. This made my docs very messy, because my printer couldn't handle the tabs. Your results may differ. But if you get messy looking stuff, now you 'll know why.
arcarese@andromeda.rutgers.edu (John C Arcarese) (03/16/88)
Arp was recently posted under comp.binaries.amiga, but I need ZOO 1.71 to decompress it & make into something I can use. Could someone please find the time to re-post Zoo to comp.binaries.amiga. ThanX in Advance. John Arcarese