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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP
Message-ID: <38321@sun.uucp>
Date: 8 Jan 88 20:38:09 GMT
References: <266@draken.nada.kth.se>
Sender: news@sun.uucp
Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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Keywords: ARP, Copy, cp

In article <266@draken.nada.kth.se> NORDMARK%vaxkab.lne.kth.se@enea.UUCP writes:
|>The ARP package which was recently posted to .binaries is truly superb.
|>What a relief to be able to type 'Delete *' again!
|>(Or better yet: Delete *multi*tasking* ALL)  That #? was driving me crazy.

Yes, it is a nice piece of work. Wait to you see the programmers documentation
on what is in arp.library!

|>One little question, however: cp    (Yes, there is a command called that)
|>When you type it by itself you get the following message:
|>  usage: Copy (wildcards) [TO] (wildcards or dir) [ALL] [QUIET]
|>
|>"Ah, yes. It must be the ARP version of Copy" I concluded, and quickly deleted
|>the old AmigaDOS version and renamed the new cp as Copy.

NO!NO!NO! The *reason* it was named "cp" and NOT "Copy" is because it ISN'T
compatible with the original ADOS version. When it is, it will be distributed
as "Copy" and not "cp". 

--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.