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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARP 1.1
Message-ID: <35581UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 10 Mar 88 18:31:24 GMT
Organization: Penn Sate Erie--School of Business
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A couple of days ago I received ARP 1.1 from William Hawes.

BOY!!  AM I IMPRESSED!!

In case you are new here, ARP stands for AmigaDos Replacement Programs,
and replaces nearly everything in the C: directory with a smaller,
faster, compatible version.

Furthermore, wonderful Unix-like manual pages are provided for every command.

*** but that's not all ***

The commands are much enhanced, using a consistent, powerful Unix-like
filename wildcard capability (like egrep's).

*** and more... ***

Programmers have full access to the elaborate internal structures
used to write all these programs, including resource tracking, environment
variables, automatic parsing of complex command lines (using the AmigaDos
template with extensions), file requestors, and the reason for the project
in the first place, the ability to easily call dos commands from within
user programs.  Th programmer docs include more well-written, haphazardly
puncuated man pages.

*** Wow!  Where do I get it? ***

I'm not sure.  Don't ask me by Email.  I guess Fred Fish will distribute
it.   In Arc form, it is about 100K, but due to EBCDIC<->Ascii problems,
I cannot post them.  I will post them on CI$ if they  aren't already there.

*** Who is ARP?  ***

Again, I am not sure, except that clearly Charles Heath had a lot to
do with it, as I assume did Bill Hawes.  The initials SDB and JAT appear
here and there.  Whoever you all are, thanks again.