Aihuxi.117 net.lang.apl utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxi!otto Fri Apr 2 00:18:32 1982 Re: hp2641a terminal query Remember that there are two great ASCII<-->APL translations in the terminal world, identified (by some) as BIT pairing and KEY pairing. Any APL worth its salt in the ASCII world must have some way of dealing with either terminal type. All the ordinary characters are the same in both, but the special characters map differently (such as the parens, left and right arrows, times, divide, etc.). When the APL program is started up, there is usually some way to tell the program which kind of terminal you are using. On systems I am familiar with, the program asks the user to type in an APL right paren (or grabs it from the invokation command). This character identifies the terminal type being used. On other systems the user says either KEY or BIT, or names the terminal being used. Check to see that the UNIX APL you are using is using the same translation table type as your terminal needs. George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.