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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Director
Message-ID: <70740UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 15:03:42 GMT
References: <70402UH2@PSUVM> <88923@sun.uucp>
Organization: Penn State Erie, Behrend College
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In article <88923@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) says:
>>(2)  This is ARP echo.  After several iterations of the debug cycle,
>> something really surprising happens.  When the Director gets to the
>> statement
>>         execute rc, "echo >speak: Welcome to the vissitor"
>>the trace output (opt t) shows that statement, but the Amiga voice
>>says, "You need ARP library vs. 33"
>
>The echo command (ARP echo) will print the "You need..." message if
>the arp.library gets expunged from memory and either a) it can't load
>it from the current libs: directory, or b) there isn't enough contiguous
>memory to load it so the OpenLibrary() fails. Personally, I suspect the
>latter. Sounds like you are running right on the edge of memory availability
>in your system. Run perfmon (or what ever it is called, the one with the


Quite right, I am on the edge of my meager 512K, and that is the cause of
most of my difficulties.  However, the thing I found CURIOUS was that the
ARP error message doesn't get *printed*, it gets *spoken*.