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From: sinclair@oakhill.UUCP (Brian Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!)
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Date: 5 Aug 89 05:50:29 GMT
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In article <20904@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>Mike Meyer is asking for unlimited arguments for list, and dir (among
>others).  Sure sounds like ARP1.3 to me.
>
>C'mon.  What do people have against small, fast, highly functional, free,
>already available commands?  I use ARP commands and have no problems with
>them.  I'd like to see Commodore put them into 1.4 which rumor has it is
>an offer already made to Commodore that they turned down!
>
>I shake my head in wonder.  By using ARP one gets about 12K of space
>back on a workbench disk.  This is significant.  
>
>Can one of the CATS people comment on ARP and whether it will make it
>into AmigaDOS and if not why not?
>
>Dana
>
>Inquiring minds want to know.  Get it at your local checkstand!

Well Dana, I dont know about the folks at CATS, but I love using ARP1.3.  
My only complaint is that if you perform the installation as outlined in the
documentation you will no longer be able to autoboot from the RAD: device.
I had the same problem with ARP1.1 under AmigaDOS1.3.  I finaly did get my
1000 to autoboot from RAD: using ARP1.1 by reinstalling some of the original
AmigaDOS files.  I havent had time to investige the problem using ARP1.3.
I am however still running ARP1.3 anyway!

P.S. this is my first netmail message so PLEASE forgive any errors.


Regards,

Brian Sinclair  *:-)