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From: agollum@engr.uky.edu (David Herron aka Admiral Gollum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP, the AmigaDOS Replacement Project
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 21:07:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 21:07:35 1987
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I hate to add a sour note to the praises you're singing, but there's
less guarantee that these programs are bug-free than for the 'real'
programs.  Case in point:  The ARP Cd program distributed on some
fish disk back in the late 40's or early 50's has worked fine with
me for some months now.  But it bombs with XICON, a program which
comes on the BADGE KD disks which (evidently) runs batch files from
an icon.  With the ARP Cd, each of these batches bombed with a
"Cd failure: " message.  The real Cd coped fine.

Just what is the bug?  I can't say.  Maybe ARP Cd doesn't work in
batch files.  Maybe it interacts with XICON.  Whatever the bug, it's
subtle, but it's there.

Kenneth Herron