Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Arp 1.1 bug (Re: Using RAW: device) Message-ID: <2174@sugar.UUCP> Date: 25 Jun 88 13:26:26 GMT References: <7727@rama.UUCP> <4106@cbmvax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 42 In article ... carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes: > You are supposed to supply a specification for the window. > Like RAW:0/0/640/200/MyWindow Well, I just clicked up a CLI to try this, and typed "copy * to con:". It came back with: " .info..Can't open con:". That's funny, I thought. Then "Oh, it's the ARP copy, and '*' means '#?'". Now then, someone on the net said that with the ARP copy "copy to con:" will work... " .info..Can't open con:". So, until someone tells me how to create a file with "copy", or they fix this bug (yes, the AmigaDOS documentation says "*" is standard input or output, and the ARP documentation says that it's compatible with AmigaDOS, so it's a bug), I'm going to switch back to the DOS copy. In all fairness to ARP, they did hold off on replacing copy for a long time, so I guess they haven't had as much time to test this one. Perhaps you ARPies could look for an environment variable "WILDSTAR" and if it's set to "no" disable "*". Let the user decide! Oh yeh, while we're on the subject of incompatibilities with AmigaDOS, how about adding one: 1> dir .info 49 rwed Future 20:56:47 c Dir rwed Future 07:07:43 System Dir rwed Future 07:10:03 l Dir rwed Today 20:59:08 devs Dir rwed Tomorrow 20:58:34 s Dir rwed Monday 20:59:30 ben.blish 190 rwed Future 20:56:47 ... ^^^^^^^^^ This column here is a little less than informative. Would it be too much trouble to ask for something like 25-JUN-88? It'd fit in *exactly* the same space. -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva. -- U Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null. -- "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds".