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    My opinion is simple.

    ARP is a boon to the people who use and like it.

    On the other hand, ARP has caused more hair pulling in the history
    of the Amiga...  Its design goals are inherently destabilizing to the
    entire Amiga community:

    (1) ARP decided to name its replacement commands the same as the
	C-A commands in C:  (90% of hairpulling due to this)

    (2) ARP did not make the commands completely compatible with the
	original C: commands, causing otherwise perfectly valid script
	files to fail on arp-installed systems.

    (3) Many ARP developers and programmer-users wrote programs that
	depended on ARP extensions, calling C: programs or Execute() with
	the assumption that they were the ARP executables or certain
	patches were installed.  Total havoc is reeked on the non-arp users
	that make up the majority of amiga owners.

	Worse, some programs distributed some of the 'replacement'
	executables just so they would work, requiring non-ARP users to
	partially install ARP on their systems to use the programs.

    (4) ARP never caught up with Commodore enhancements (1.3.2 or 2.0),
	and never will.  The compatibility problem gets worse because of
	this.

    As far as I am concerned, the only really great thing about ARP is
    ARP.LIBRARY .... not because it's a good library (which it is pretty
    much), but because it doesn't screw around with existing system
    commands or libraries.  You can install it without turning your
    system into a garbage pile.

					    -Matt

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    Matthew Dillon	    dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
    891 Regal Rd.	    uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
    Berkeley, Ca. 94708
    USA