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From: ljdickey@water.UUCP (Lee Dickey)
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Subject: Re: Converting APL workspaces
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Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 06:07:18 EDT
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> [we] are moving to a Pyramid (running 4.2 BSD) and plan to use DYALOG APL.  
Lucky you!  Dyalog has the best UNIX-APL interface that I have seen.
 
> Does anyone out there have any experience in transferring workspaces.
Yes.  The only recommended method is the WorkSpace Interchange Standard.
I think that I have done the largest ws conversion ever, about 2200
workspaces, and could not have done it without WSIS.  Some  ad hoc 
methods can come close, but there is *nothing* that beats it.

Dyalog might have a WSIS receiver, because surely they have faced this
problem before.  (A number of people are moving to Dyalog.) At least
two progressive APL's include WSIS as a built in utility, and maybe
Dyalog is one of them, I can not remember.  If they do not have it yet,
this is a good time to negotiate for it!

It is not hard to write a WSIS sender.  If you also have to write your
own receiver, you can simplify the WSIS conventions because you know
exactly what the atomic vector is on each machine.

There are a couple of places to look for WSIS documentation.  If I
remember correctly, it is the Dec 79 issue of APL Quote Quad that has
WSIS0.  Appendix B of the Draft International Standard has WSIS1.