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From: arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARP1.3 questions
Keywords: ARP
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Date: 26 Nov 89 06:18:54 GMT
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I just installed ARP1.3, and I found one unpleasant surprise and one puzzle:

1. The surprise: when trying to clean up micro-GNU-emacs backup files, I 
typed delete *~  -  and watched all of the files in the directory disappear.
I guess the fact that ~ is a special character to ARP must be responsible,
but the lesson is : don't type that!  (For once things were backed up, at 
least - and, thanks to the ARP extension to the delete command, ask, I have
an alias so that it cannot happen again.)

2. The puzzle: After messing around a while, converting to Ashell by taking
the commodore shell out of the startup sequence, and converting resident to 
Ares, whenever I tried to use more, I got a requester that said "resident 
program more has checksum error".  But, if I just hit cancel on the requester,
it seemed to work fine. (I explicitly have "Ares more" in the startup sequence;
I haven't figured out what commands are included in AShell yet.)

I would be grateful for any tips on deleting all files~ without typing out
explicit names and on what the checksum error means.

Pat Palmer (email: ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu)