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#No RUN

    09-Jul-88 18:18:09
Sb: #133811-#No RUN
Fm: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
To: John Draper 76703,4322
Well, actually – I didn't say _anything_ about a "non-supported library". I said I didn't want ARP in my system. Some of the reasons are: I don't want to learn new commands… and new BUGS. I don't want to gove up space to ARP library – want my cmds completely transient, as much as possible. I need to ensure that the software that my company makes works in the "standard" environment – ARP needs to make sure that it works with our stuff – not the other way around, until and unless CBM supports it. Specific problems here include not having to worry about where a bug is coming from when I find one. I also _personally_ find arp to be a reinvention of the wheel, and I'm not particularly positive about it for that reason. I emphasize that's a personal opinion, and not a proclamation. WP offered me something I couldn't otherwise get (because excellence wasn't out yet) and so got into my system by default. ARP offers me absolutely nothing that I can see except a new learning curve, reduced available memory, an abnormal running environment, and IBM wildcards. No thank you. WP is out of my system now, thanks to Excellence, and I hope to stay with this program. MSS may not be the "hottest" Amiga company around, but at least they know what a proportional gadget is, and someone there must have looked up WYSIWYG _before_ excellence was written. I'm not sure if anyone at WP even knows what the word means. –Ben–