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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Some ARP questions
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Date: 4 May 88 14:58:07 GMT
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A couple of dumb questions about ARP:
  a) Is there some cookbook or other guidance for getting it set up?
     My WB disk has something like 40 free blocks on it, so I obviously
     can't just merge the ARP stuff in.  Is there some "installation" guide
     for what things you can move/delete when you put ARP in place?
  b) With all of the words about Manx/Lattice bindings in the prodocs, I have
     a pretty bizarre question: I assume that arp.library is compatible
     with Basic, yes?  I can handle cobbling up a .bmap file for it (I'm
     pretty sure), but all that stuff about compiler differences and using
     the right loader and stuff confused me a bit (as a non-combatant in the
     C wars, all the doings and details are a bit mysterious...alink and
     blink (you'd think C would use "Clink", no?), per-compiler "bindings" --
     what's that?  Just a fancy name for "include file"? etc...).
  c) Are the *unformatted* documents available (that is, the source
     files).  They surely look machine-formatted --  If I could get at
     the sources, I could take a run at two things: (1) making the
     thing suitable for printing on a laserprinter (which primarily
     means replacing the funny escape sequences with something more
     palatable to our printer here, although being able to take
     advantage of using a real (ie., not fixed width) font and the like
     would be nice, too), and (2) Icould probably get it scaled down to
     6x9, which I find to be a handier size for a manual (you just GBC
     bind it and you're home free). [if I succeed in this, I'd be happy
     to share the "improved" (by my standards) manuals with the rest of
     you]
  d) Does Microsmiths really exist?  I thought I'd spare you-all these dumb
     questions by calling Microsmiths directly (after all, they're right here
     in Cambridge), but it's been a week now and I've never been able to get
     anyone to answer the phone.
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