Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!tronsbox!bleys From: bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (bleys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: ARP1.3 questions Keywords: ARP Message-ID: <[25733c9f:2780.1]comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 89 03:00:18 GMT References: <6417@tank.uchicago.edu> Lines: 31 patrick palmer asks... >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.) When the Commie Resident command is run, it checks the protection mask, and if the 'p' bit is set, it loads the command. The ARes command does it's own checksum calculation. Obviously, the version of More you're using doesn't pass the checksum as re-entrable code. To make the program ignore the checksum, just type 'Ares /More NOCHECK '. The Ares program also doesn't make a command resident until the first time it's called, even if the Ares statement is in your startup-sequence. If you want to force something resident immediately, type 'Ares FORCE'. He also asks... >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.) I'm not sure what you're asking, since the " character is a negative wildcard. If you say '".info', you're saying 'all files that >>don't<< end with .info'. Why would you want to >end< the pattern with "?