| From: | Andrew Bell |
| Date: | 4 Sep 2001 at 20:20:46 |
| Subject: | [amigactive] Re: ASL |
Hi Steve
On 04-Sep-01, you wrote:
> TBH, I can't really see the advantage in the OS3.5 asl.lib anyway (I
> myself use magicASL, which is still streets ahead).
It's been that long since I've used OS 3.0, but IIRC there were lots of
minor improvements to ASL with OS 3.5+ (like renaming, make dir, delete in
file requesters, etc.).
>I had similar
> thoughts, though, but since the V44 library is freely available, who can
> blame the guy.
It's not meant to be freely available. Why do you think H&P password
protected the last BoingBag? Anyway, when people mix unmatched OS
components, especially those from future OS revisions, they're asking for
trouble.
Look what happened when OS 3.0 users tried to install OS 3.1 datatypes onto
their system, it caused all types of glitches and strange problems.
> He has said that this is the only time he has had any problems.
Just because it hasn't crashed on him yet, doesn't mean it never will. :-)
> I've
> tracked it down to it attached asc(255) to the path, so in my prog, I
> strip all instances of asc(255).
You're filtering paths in your program? There's absolutely no need IMO.
dos.library provides all the functions you'll ever need for manipulating
paths and filenames. ASCII 255 is probably used by some international
language. ;-)
Regards, Andrew Bell.
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