ljdickey@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (04/04/91)
J, version 3.0 for Mac and other APL Software at Waterloo Version 3.0 of J, is now available on the file server watserv1.waterloo.edu [ 129.97.129.140 ] at the University of Waterloo. In the directory "languages/apl/j", anonymous ftp users may find J for these systems: mac pc Earlier releases of J are available for certain other systems: atari_st mips next sgi sun386i sun4 vax_bsd An index showing all APL files is available as "languages/apl/index". Other dialects of APL, such as Sharp APL, I-APL, and ratapl are available for IBM PCs and compatibles. Three APL fonts are available: (1) APL2745, a postscript line font (2) An X-Windows font (3) A TeX font. Currently, this service is being provided on an experimental basis, and there are no promises that it will continue on a long term basis, nor is there any warantee of serviceability or completeness of the software distributed from watserv1. It is hoped that eventually there will be a mail server for the same range of software to those who have e-mail access but no ftp access, but a userid for this mail service has not been announced yet. In the meantime, users who do not have ftp but who do have e-mail may find the service "BITFTP at PUCC" helpfull. For example this mail message (with no leading blanks) To: bitftp@pucc.bitnet FTP watserv1.waterloo.edu UUENCODE USER anonymous CD languages/apl BINARY GET index QUIT was successful in acquiring the index. Similar messages could result in receiving the various pieces of software. Once you have the index, you may see the name of some other file you want. For such a file, determine the directory path (``dp'') and the file name (``fn''). One example you will have already done: the file "languages/apl/index" splits up as: dp languages/apl fn index As another example, if you want the file "languages/apl/j/pc/j_pc_30.arc", you would use the directory path and the file name: dp languages/apl/j/mac fn j3.sitxhqx Prepare a little file to be a mail message to pucc: (As before, no lines of the file have no leading blanks.) To: bitftp@pucc.bitnet FTP watserv1.waterloo.edu UUENCODE USER anonymous CD dp BINARY GET fn QUIT Of course, in the above, you replace "dp" by the appropriate directory path, and you replace "fn" by the file name. Use your local e-mail to send the file off. If all goes as intended, when PUCC gets your mail message, it does the "ftp" session for you, using the commands you have supplied. It wraps the file up in a "uuencode" package, and mails it to you. When you get the file, you may have to combine several files together, remove superflous blank and mail header lines, and uudecode the file.