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From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A real ARP Bug?
Summary: It seems to be a bug
Keywords: ARP Bug AmigaDOS raw
Message-ID: <2987@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 05:50:28 GMT
References: <285@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: The Binary Bin
Lines: 27

In article <285@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White) writes:
> 
:> I have been asked to post this for a friend: reply to me [or post news]
:> 
:> The following command works under AmigaDOS but not under ARP:
:> 
:> 	copy raw:10/10/100/100/In raw:200/10/300/100/Out
:> 
:: In ARP, it gives the following message:
:> 
:> 	Can't open raw:10/10/100/100/In
:> 
:> Asking 'why' gives:
:> 
:> 	Last command failed because packet request type unknown
:> 

I found this problem about two days ago and reported it to C. Heath.  In his
reply to me he said that the arp version of the command does a lock and 
that causes it not to work with raw: and that it may be fixed in a future
release.


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