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> Lastly, your example is wrong. VLT doesn't require rexxarplib at all.
> Some example scripts with VLT do require rexxarplib, that's all. Add to
> this that I just don't like distributing other people's work with my
> own in case you also think I should include all the XPR libraries.
 
  Well, I see that I was correct about the reasons that these libaries
are not included.   As far as whether they are required or not I
suppose that is still a matter of opinion.  But I'll try to explain
it from my point of view.  I want a full featured term program that is
written with WB 2.0 in mind.  I have heard many good things about the
VLT program and I decide that I want to start using it.  So, I ftp
all of the files starting with vlt* from ab20, hoping that I will have
everything that I need.  Since I have lharc for UNIX I can examine the
archive and repck them if neccessary.  (Could someone tell me where I
can get a UNIX version of LhA??)  Well, I think that I have everything
but when I try to use the "Phonebook"  (This is the very first thing
that I tried, it is to me an elementary and basic feature of a good
term program),  However I get some message telling me that I need to
use rexxarplib.library version 3.0.  I then log into my UNIX system
and grep the files of ab20 (A local copy)  I then find that ab20
does not even have a version 3.0 of rexxarplib.library.  I also then
take the time to download every XPR library that I can find so that I
can at least get the download/upload portion of the term working.
 
  Look, I appreciate the fact that you make this software available
to many, many users and you help enrich the Amiga community, but as
a software designer I know that your program was probably only tested 
with one version of rexxarplib.library and one version of each of the XPR
libararies.  You know those it worked with that version.  It may work
with a newer version, or it may not.  It probably won't work with
an older version.   Most BBS only keep one version of each of these
things around.  If sometime in the future you discover a problem you
yourself might want to know the versions that you used to test VLT 5.045
with.  I hope that you will be able to find copies of these libraries
if and when this happens.
 
  Anyway, I am only trying to give you some construvtive feedback
about what makes your product easy or hard to use, and suggest way
that you might want to consider to improve it.  If as you seem to believe
every Amiga user already has the latest and greatest versions of these
libraries they won't need the various arp libraries and XPR libraries,
but if as I content, the majority of Amiga users just want a very good
fast and nifty term program and they have not already got all of these
libararies then they will have to hunt them down and I will tell you
that it is often very difficult to find each of these XPR and ARP
libararies.   So, I would suggest as a comprimise that you upload
something called vlt-arp-and-xpr.lzh along with the latest version
of your vlt program and them those of up who want or need it can be
sure to pick it up when they get the VLT program.  We also will know
which version of these libraries have been tested and are known to work
with VLT.  I would think that this would make it work better for everyone.
 
    -- brian --
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