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In article <1990Nov20.154005.18828@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@frith.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes:
>In article <7056@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>In article <90318.162021DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>> Oh, give me a break!!! ARP was a not-for-profit (ad)venture by a group of
>>> very talented and enthusiastic programmers, and they did a damn fine job, a
>>> lot better than those cheesy BCPL crap-garbage-explitive commands!!!
>>Well, I beg to differ. I'm sure they're great guys and all but they spent a
>>lot of energy solving a problem that didn't exist.
>			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I beg to differ.  I used switched to ARP when I didn't have enough
>space on the old WorkBench disk.  I had already moved the fonts to a
>separate disk, and with the miscellaneous .library files on WB there
>was no more room for anything else.  After installing ARP, I had room
>to add one additional item (namely, MSH), which I could not have done
>otherwise.  I have had no problems with it for the things I use it for.

    I've found that, over the years, it is much more efficient to simply
    invest in a hard disk (or more hard disks :-)) or more memory when one
    begins to get crammed.  Frankly, the time saved by having an HD pays
    for it very quickly.

    I've never used ARP .. simply because there are so many
    incompatibilities with it verses what 99% of amiga owners use
    (AmigaDOS/NewShell) that I CAN'T use it.  Also, I would never even
    consider installing something with such great consequences to the
    system without full sources.  I've probably saved myself a couple
    hundred hours of bug tracing and installation problems (of other
    software) by not touching ARP.

    P.S. I use arp.library as well, at least for non 2.0 stuff.

    P.S. Note diplomatic phrasing: I never said I didn't like ARP, just
	that I do not use it!

					    -Matt
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    Matthew Dillon	    dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
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