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#: 130916 S10/ProgrammingForum unknown
    21-Jun-88 06:55:40
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: Ben Blish 72667,1341

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Gee, where have I heard that "rewrite the ARP commands in C" before? Somebody else is welcome to… to my thinking though, the disk space saved by the assembler versions is one of the main reasons for using ARP, and my guess is going to C would wind up about breakeven with the original BCPL commands, when you include the space used by arp.library. I think whatever it was that was upsetting FFS has been fixed in the Omega release(s) of FFS. Guess I should back up my HD and try out an Omega FFS and see… …cheath