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From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: apl2 on pcs
Summary: APL2 can read many sorts of files on PC
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Date: 1 Nov 89 05:20:29 GMT
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I have been able to read and write files from Lotus 123, Microsoft
FORTRAN, (and many other MS languages) and both Turbo Pascal and
Turbo C into APL2/PC for IBM. Reading the other way depends on 
if you write the file as a 'flat' file or an APL type file. It is
not so easy to get an )OUT created file with nontrivial APL array
structure into another language, but character files are not a big
problem. APL2/PC provides special functions for converting files
into and out of APL form, and these work pretty well with ASCII
text files. Once you get the data into APL2 as a character vector,
you can do what you want.


Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt

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