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From: reid@Cascade.ARPA
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Subject: Re: APL character set (summary of responses)
Message-ID: <234@Cascade.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 01:26:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 01:26:54 1984
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Here at Stanford we have a version of apl\11, which we got from the UCSF
Computer Graphics Lab; I have no idea where they got it from, and we have
made a lot of changes to it (but none to the character set) It obviously is
rooted in the same Ken Thompson original Yale version that the Purdue apl\11
comes from, but I don't really know what disparate path it took.

I am busily converting our apl\11 to work under 4.2 because the Purdue APL,
though much nicer, is just too deeply in bed with overstruck characters and
wants its own editor; we like to use Emacs with an "apl mode" for editing.

Ours uses dot codes, but they are not the same as any of the other dot codes
you were given. Try
	.it 10
	20 20 .rh 'abc'
	.qd _ 'Hi mom'
and see what happens. If that does anything useful I can send you the whole
character table.
		Brian Reid