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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP Replacement for List, Dir?
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Date: 7 Mar 88 18:14:50 GMT
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In article <305@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) 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.

Ok, some explanations here. When you get arp you *must* put arp.library
in the LIBS: directory. Why? Because the commands that come with the 
ARP distribution use it to parse arguments etc. If the library isn't
there, ARP puts up a recoverable Alert (which looks like a GURU to some)
pressing the left button on the mouse would continue. Now enter the 
Amiga 2000. 

The Amiga has a bug in the ROM that won't allow it to display
recoverable alerts, so when you try the machine *really* GURUs.
Fortunately, there is a program by Andy Finkel (and one by Bryce too)
that patch this bug and then recoverable alerts work as expected. In
release 1.1 of ARP the commands print a message in the window rather
than put up a recoverable alert. Not as cute but safer considering the
situation.

Hope that was the problem you were experiencing ...

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