UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (03/13/88)
Before I got ARP, I worried that it might be a tight fit on my vanilla,
512K A1000, but a little experiment showed that things are not bad.
I installed ARP on my WordPerfect working disk, and compared disk usage,
memory usage, C: directory contents, and Memory used by commands:
Free Free C: commands Memory used
mem. disk blks (blocks) by DIR
===== ======== ========== =========
Before ARP 375K 422 20 (156) 29k
After ARP 363K 363 52 (194) 10K
In words, arp.library takes about 12K, and ARP used about 59 "more"
blocks on the disk. BUT, 38 of those blocks are used to store 32
C: commands that are *not* on the WP disk, such as If, Else, Ask, Rename,
DisckChange, Install, etc. Also, as advertised, the ARP C: commands use
less memory, as shown by the DIR command's 19K savings.
Conclusion: Unless your application *must have* that 12K(rounded) of memory
that ARP commands will steal, the benefits of ARP are high even for the
most casual CLI user.
For experienced CLI users and programmers, ARP seems indispensible.