ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (11/29/89)
One of my colleagues has asked if I know of
any APL for which there is an X11 driver.
I don't.
Do you?
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L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu prins@prins.cs.unc.edu (Jan Prins) (11/30/89)
AT UNC we use STSC's APL*PLUS/UNX interpreter which supports a large variety of terminal types via flexible input and output mappings. STSC supplied us with X11 APL fonts that can be used with xterm and a suitably arranged output mapping to yield an APL window. The plain MIT X11R3 xterm actually requires two fonts (-fn and -fb) to support all the APL characters and overstrikes (recall quad-AV has 256 elements); DECwindows supports 8-bit character codes and hence dxterm can be used with a single font and a simpler mapping. With this arrangement any workstation running X can host an APL window even though the interpreter, in general, runs on a different machine. Regards, Jan Prins (prins@cs.unc.edu) Dept. of Computer Science UNC Chapel Hill