Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cc.curtin.edu.au!cutmcvax!peter From: peter@cutmcvax.cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Peter Wemm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Is ARP orphaned? Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 08:11:54 GMT Article-I.D.: cutmcvax.peter.671616714 References: <12603.2804db1f@zeus.unomaha.edu> Sender: news@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Usenet News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 43 Nntp-Posting-Host: cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au bacon@zeus.unomaha.edu (Infomaniac) writes: >In article , peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin >edu.au (Peter Wemm) writes: >> jkh@MEEPMEEP.PCS.COM (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >> [...] >> I have been promising myself for the last few months that I will write a >> "compatibility" library that implements the ARP functionality under 2.0. >> Anything that uses ASyncRun() under 2.0 dies, but I have a way around that in >> mind. >> >> If anything ever comes of it, I will post details..... >Peter, I had heard that 2.0 was making ARP obselete only for the reason that C= >was going to implement the ARP code en toto (totally) into the new release!! >In other words, C= couldn't improve on it so they used it ;) Basically Charlie >has worked himself out of a job, as far as ARP is concerned. Therefore, I have >heard that there were no plans for further upgrades. >Then again, ... I could be way off the wall. >Russ Yes, that was the point. Arp.library doesn't work too well under 2.0 (ASyncRun() etc) so I was going to write a stub library called arp.library which called the replacement routines in 2.0. That way, old programs that call arp.library specifically, will work under 2.0 (and use some 2.0) >comments/suggestions/additions/deletions/obfuscations/indigestions WELCOMED!!! >****************************************************************************** >Gee. . . Toto . . . this sure doesn't look like Kansas! > Russ Bacon University of NE at Omaha /// Have you > Bitnet - Bacon@UNOMA1 /// tried > Internet - Bacon@zeus.unomaha.edu \\\/// an > Yellnet - (402) 554-2293 \XX/ AMIGA?? >***************************************************************************** -- Peter Wemm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter@cs.curtin.edu.au (Home) +61-9-450-5243 Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers. (Dan Zerkle)