Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!amdahl!kim
From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP Replacement for List, Dir?
Message-ID: <23929@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 7 Mar 88 10:48:22 GMT
References: <8803070542.AA02086@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Summary: it may *look* like a Guru, but only it's hairdresser knows for sure ...

In article <8803070542.AA02086@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> >When I got ARP, I installed it on my system disk.  I proceeded to do a
> >cd or some such, and the machine immediately GURU'd.  I was running
> >under Matt's shell at the time.
> >
> >Has anyone else run into this?  Is it fixed?  Or was it just a
> >coincidence (sp?)?
>
>         'cd' is an internal command to the shell and has nothing to
> do with ARP.  However, if you ran the actual CD executable (ARP CD or
> standard CD), you will probably crash the shell.

Don't think so ... they (the ARP commands) work just fine under shell
(v2.07m).

I would bet that what was seen as a Guru, was really a Recoverable Alert,
and was due to not having "arp.library" in the libs: directory when the
execution of an ARP commad was attempted (possibly Cd, or CD).

This is a little confusing unless you really *read* the "Big Red Blinking
Box" (which at a glance *looks* like a Guru).  If you read the alert, you'll
notice that you can click on one of the mouse buttons, and it'll recover.

When initially installing ARP, be sure you're using the shell's internal
commands to copy arp.library to libs:, and such.  If you're not using shell,
use something like "c:copy arp.library libs:", where the c:copy command is
NOT the ARP version; *then* copy the ARP commands to your c: dir, etc.

If TBRB (The Big Red  Box) really *was* a Guru, look elsewhere.

/kim



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