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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
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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.
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