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From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP.library?
Message-ID: <15461@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 23:28:18 GMT
References: <90302.130151DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <90302.130151DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) writes:
>
>     Hokay... I just got ahold of a program that looks rather interesting, but
>when I try to run it, I get the message "requires arp.library version xx or
>higher".  I had no idea what this was.
>     Then, I happened to stumble onto AmigaWORLD's review of top 20 PD programs
>and lo and behold, there is arp.library, listed as AmigaDOS Replacement
>Project.  Now, I don't have a problem with the standard AmigaDOS stuff since
>it all seems to work so nicely under WB2.0 on my A3000.  I would like to run
>this program, but I don't want to replace my AmigaDOS commands in the C:
>directory!  Help!!!
>     Anybody know how I can get it to run or have arp.library be available
>in some other directory?  Perhaps if I NewZapped the program to look for
>the library in some other directory (say CR:) and put the arp.library commands
>there it would work?  Thanks for any help.
>

Many applications use the arp.library for the Charlie Heath file requestor in
it. Just get a copy if arp.library (should be on a Fish Disk somewhere. Anyone
know of a downlaodable version?) and copy it to your libs: directory. There's
no need to replace all the standard AmigaDOS files.

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