Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Faith in the Amiga Message-ID: <1102@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 1 Feb 90 12:13:36 GMT Lines: 31 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <13236@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly) writes: >From article <02030.AA02030@sosaria>, by wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand): >> I totally agree. The standards on the Amiga are heaven on earth. > >Not to be nasty, but my frame of reference is a little different than yours... > >Let's see... > > Matt Dillon's UUCP requires the NULL device which I don't have... > (it wasn't standard with my Amiga!). > > Steve Koren's SKSH requires arp.library which I didn't have the right > version of (it wasn't standard with my Amiga!) Sure, and Hack requires data files that don't come standard with the Amiga. C'Mon... these things you speak of are tools that someone saw a need for and provided. Others saw a need to use them, and did so. You cannot expect CBM to provide every possible permutation of every type of device or library. NULL: and arp.library, should you 'choose not to use them', will certainly prevent you from using certain packages. It has nothing to do with standards. -larry -- This life is a test. It is only a test. If this had been a real life, you would have been told where to go and what to do. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+