SAS/C 5.10A Patch
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The ARP execute is known to be broken. We have had a number of people
complain about a similar problem. In fact a significant number of our
calls (as much as half) to technical support are problems from people who
are using ARP. There is nothing that we can do to ensure that it will work
with ARP because the EXECUTE problem is a random failure. The ARP shell
also wreaks havok with priorities in the compiler. The only thing that we
can do in the future to ease this situation is to check for ARP and fail
the patch if it is present so that you don't suffer through half an hour or
more followed by a random failure. You can call technical support to
request the patch on diskette.
Thanks John, I reinstalled the Workbench 1.3 commands, and removed the ARP
Shell, etc.. Now the SAS update appears to have worked fine. I guess I
never kept up enough to know that ARP was bug-ridden. I'll miss some of
the features though, especially the '*' wildcard. (It sure would be nice
to have standard wildcards, etc.. for those of us who use multiple machine
types, Oh well) Thanks again,
– via Whap!
Kelvin, if yo upick up ARexx you can add the "*" wildcard back to any
command you want to have it; and you'll have the most powerful single
addition you can add to your Amiga.
In my opinion, the only thing from the ARP project you want in your system
is the arp.library, which many (misguided) programmers have used as a
portion of their programs. In other words, many programs will not run
without that library present in your system.
Hopefully, if 2.0 is released for all the Amigas (500-3000), many of the
"easy" resources in the arp.library will be available right from DOS, and
we won't have to worry about which system has what libraries with it.
Ben
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