Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!stevex From: stevex@ziebmef.uucp (Steve Tibbett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ARP compatibilty for WB 1.3 Keywords: ARP WB 1.3 Message-ID: <1988Sep25.153034.18670@ziebmef.uucp> Date: 25 Sep 88 19:30:33 GMT References: <1468@ektools.UUCP> Reply-To: stevex@ziebmef.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) Organization: Ziebmef Public Access BBS/Unix Lines: 20 As far as I know, the ARP folks are still planning an ARP release shortly after 1.3 is released (to avoid having to be compatible with a 'Moving Target'). It's almost as if ARP and CBM are competing with each other for our C: directories. The next ARP release will have a really nice EVAL command that has been written for a good while now (by Ken Salmon). It's really flexible, and combined with Execute (also being revised for next ARP), it's almost a programming language. (Example:) EVAL X=12 EVAL Y=(6*2)+2 EVAL X*(Y-1) will print "156". It'll handle strings too, I believe. What did CBM add, out of the blue, to 1.3? an Eval command that will take exactly TWO numbers and ONE mathematical operation, and print a result. It won't even let you be flexible about spacing ("eval 2*2" prints 2, I believe). ...SteveX (stevex@ziebmef.UUCP)