Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!liuida!slaka!micke From: micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Does ARP have problems? Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 02:41:24 GMT References: <1991Mar7.201652.27356@javelin.es.com> Organization: Absolut Software Lines: 53 In article dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: >In article <1991Mar7.201652.27356@javelin.es.com> pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes: >>dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: >> >>> ARP is *BROKEN*. It has *so* many bugs that it is impossible to >>>[..] >> >>Uh, excuse me? Matt is sort of like an E.F. Hutton of the Amiga. When Matt >>[..] > >[..] > > While I like the idea of ARP as a whole, it has only caused me problems > in the past, and perhaps a quarter of all the bug reports I get from > people relating to various projects (AmigaUUCP, DICE) are due to their > running ARP and incompatibilities due to that. I also have noticed > that my Amiga is quite a bit MORE reliable if I do not use *any* ARP > commands, and that is important to me. > > So, that's my personal experience. But the ARP commands have one great advantage. Wildcard expansions are sorted. That makes it very easy for me to join files part01..partNN in the correct order by simply giving the command: JOIN FILE?? AS BIGFILE How do I do that with standard AmigaDOS commands? How about: LIST FILE?? LFORMAT "JOIN %s AS BIGFILE" | SO.. Oops, no pipes. I'll try again: LIST >t:tempfile FILE?? LFORMAT "JOIN %s AS BIGFILE" SORT t:tempfile t:tempfile2 EXECUTE t:tempfile2 DELETE t:tempfile DELETE t:tempfile2 I also like that I can do: RENAME *.c as old*.c > -Matt /Mikael -- \_/ Mikael Karlsson, Lovsattersvagen 10, S-585 98 LINKOPING, SWEDEN V | micke@slaka.sirius.se | Absolut Software | micke@slaka.UUCP ~~~ | {mcvax,seismo}!sunic!liuida!slaka!micke