Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!! Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 20:18:56 GMT References: <114.273F7E66@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov14.034507.19784@hoss.unl.edu> <18366c2e.ARN04050@adspdk.UUCP> Lines: 40 >In article <18366c2e.ARN04050@adspdk.UUCP> hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen) writes: > The first releases of ARP where nice, but whith the coming of the ARP >shell, many things broke: > > The Shell was not compatible enough, breaking several installation >scripts, including Lattice C. [other stuff deleted about dnet, which I have no knowledge of] That's pretty weird. Don't tell my computer about this - I installed Lattice 5.05 _and_ SAS/C 5.10 with ARP shell and all the ARP commands. Maybe my computer never knew about this... >| Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data | I've also heard assertations that the ARP shell uses wildcards and not regular expressions. NONSENSE! I say. ARP shell supports the normal AmigaDOS regexps, and it also supports '*' as a synonym for '#?'. In addition to that, it supports character classes: [characters], and a negation character '~'. So I can delete all the non-source-code files out of a directory with: delete ~*.[ch]. Or I can zoo up the files in a directory and get rid of everything but the zoo file with: delete ~*.zoo. I can rename all the data files in a directory from #?.dat to old.#?.dat like this: move #?.dat old.#?.dat There have also been claims that you have to install ConMan to get pipes. NONSENSE! I say. Just grab the conman library, put it in LIBS:, put the handler in L:, and you have pipes. To be honest, I'm not even sure what ConMan _does_, and I never installed it. Before people flame on about this, RTFM! Really. Re: assembly versus C source code: Well, to each his own. Don't be a language-nazi. Some people can develop as quickly in assembly as HLL's, some people even write assembler code for a living. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |