Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!eagle!jtreworgy From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!) Message-ID: <366@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 6 Aug 89 19:14:47 GMT References: <8908060117.AA03288@jade.berkeley.edu> <490@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Lines: 40 In article <490@tardis.Tymnet.COM>, jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: > John Sparks writes in message <927@corpane.UUCP> > The reason I don't use arp is because of the pesky arp.library that has to be > around. I always seem to get into a situation where I need it but the arp > program can't seem to find it. It's more a hassle than anything else. > > In article <8908060117.AA03288@jade.berkeley.edu> 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea) writes: >>God! Did you not know you are supposed to put the arp.library in the LIBS: >>directory? There is even a program, ArpInstall which will do everything >>easely for you! >> >>How did you ever manage to get on this net? > > Valentin, did you ever stop to think - most of us have more than one bootable > Workbench disk. If you copy even just one ARP command to the C: directory, > you have to copy arp.library as well. Many times. Over and over. > I have some floppies that are so tight that arp.library won't fit. > (These are special purpose floppies where replacing all commands in C: > may be contra-productive.) I think that most of us who use our Amigae more that just trivially have only one REAL bootable disk, that is, the disk we work off of. (Don't take that literally, flamers... of course almost every game I have boots by itself). Any disk on which you have a substantial subset of the C directory will not be taxed by changing to ARP. As for any disk which does NOT have a substantial subset, why bother? You probably don't do enough with that disk to make it worthwhile. I have one Workbench disk I use. I can't imagine having to update several disks every time I make changes to my operating environment.What possible reason is there for having more than one? It wastes enormous amounts of disk space. Actually, I take that back. There is one reason, which is you only have one disk drive, and want to have enough on every disk so you don't have to continually swap disks. But since I got a second disk drive (should be standard equipment for any Amiga! Crippled without it) I have found no reason to keep duplicate copies of all that stuff. -- James A. Treworgy "You should have seen me with the poker man, jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu I had a honey and I bet a grand, jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET Just in the nick of time I looked at his hand" Box 5033 Wesleyan Station -Paul McCartney Middletown, CT 06475