#Help w/ARPs, XIcon?
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I'm a relative newcomer to the Amiga series of computers, and am
encountering some difficulties in a few files that are missing from
downloads. First off, what is an ARP library, and why don' t the software
packages I download include them, if they're essential to their proper
operation? Secondly, what is an XIcon, and why isn't it covered in the
AmigaDOS manual I recently purchased (the docs supplied with my 500 were
worse than useless, and I consider an MS-DOS manual light reading)? Any
answers to these questions, or directions to help files would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
peter
Peter,
arp.library is a library of routines used by the 'Amiga Replacement
Project' command set. They were a set of commands that executed faster,
and were somewhat more versitile that the equivalent AmigaDOS commands.
Just as an example, it contained among other things…a fairly robust file
requester.
Thus, because of the functionality of some of the things in the
library (such as the file requester) and because arp.library was freely
available other programmers used those routines…thus you need the library
to run the programs. Normally, it's included in the archive. However,
it's available as a download by itself in LIB 13 of the Amiga Tech forum as
ARPLIB.ZOO. You'll need ZOO to extract the library itself.
XIcon is a program that will execute a script file from an ICON.
Don
<heavy sigh of relief> thank you for the info, I'll check it out
immediately! Aside from that frustration, I've had loads of fun w/this
machine (no other system lets you play SimCity while waiting for a
particularly large download to finish), and can hardly wait to "convert" my
father!
Peter