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From: jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP.library?
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Date: 1 Nov 90 12:38:06 GMT
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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.
[...]
>I would like to run
>this program, but I don't want to replace my AmigaDOS commands in the C:
>directory!  Help!!!

No problem.  Just put arp.library in LIBS: and don't touch anything in C:
That way, arp.library will be available for the occasional program that
needs it, but you can keep the standard AmigaDOS commands.

This is a frequent misunderstanding, and it probably results from ARP
really being two things:

     1.	A library of useful support functions (file requester, resource
	tracking, multiprocessing, etc.)

     2.	A set of enhanced replacements for the CLI commands in C:

     3. (ok, three things) A replacement shell program (ASH).

Third-party programs which require arp.library need (1) only.  Nothing
that I know of requires (2) or (3).

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