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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:  What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
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Date: 31 Dec 90 12:20:36 GMT
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In <SteveX.3234@omx.UUCP>, SteveX@omx.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) writes:
>>In article <2312@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>Certainly it's less dangerous, but I did name it the same. What if I had
>>written a MOUNT that corrected a problem inherent in the CBM MOUNT, and called
>>it MOUNT? Would I still get a flame for it? If I called it something other than
>>MOUNT, it would njust mean that a lot of folks would rename it to MOUNT, just
>>as anyone is free to rename any ARP program to something else. Personally,
>>after DIR, LIST, and LS, I have a problem with attempting to come up with
>>another meaningful name, should I actually want to keep some of the others
>>around.
>
>I'd flame you for it.
>
>Two reasons...
>	
>	1: When I update my C: directory with a new set of C: commands,
>	   your mount would be a special case that I'd have to copy back
>	   on after every update (or I'd just have to call it something else)

I see this as an operational limitation imposed upon you, by yourself.  This is
one of the reasons for the 'PATH' command. Why remember two names for
something, when one will do? When you need the 'other one', just prefix it with
'c:'.

>	2: There is no way of knowing that your MOUNT will have all the
>	   functionality of all future MOUNT's.  If your mount is called
>	   LPMount or some other name, then I can use it specifically for
>	   the things I can't use the CBM mount for.

Or the other way around. In either case, you are imposing limitations on
yourself with your seeming reluctance to use the system's capabilities,
specifically, 'rename' and 'path', in this case.


>If the user takes LPMount and calls it MOUNT, then he's asking for his
>own trouble, not being given it by you.

Well, nobody is forcing anyone to actually replace any command with any other
command, to place it in any particular place, or to call it any particular
thing.

To each his own. You may as well flame me for my early 'echo' command, though
those that used it thanked me for it.

-larry

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