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From: ljdickey@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Leroy J. Dickey)
Subject: Toronto Toolkit
Message-ID: <1992May26.220835.1350@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 22:08:35 GMT
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			The Toronto Toolkit

			    Lee Dickey
			    1992-05-26

Yesterday, the functions and variables of Version 2.1 of the famous
Toronto APL SIG Toolkit were made available for distribution in
electronic form.

The work on Toronto Toolkit started in 1983, inspired in part by the
Finn APL Idiom List.  The editor, Richard Levine, and his group of
co-workers received contributions from many places, but mainly from
within the Toronto APL Special Interest Group.  There were two releases
and several printings of the Toronto Toolkit in paper form in the
mid-eighties, and when it was announced in APL Quote Quad, the Toronto
Toolkit attained an almost instantaneous international reputation for
excellence.  In the intervening years, readers from all over the world
have asked for electronic versions.  Their requests have not gone
unheard, and now the functions of the Toronto Toolkit are are available
in electronic form and have been placed in the APL archives at
Waterloo.  They are available by anonymous ftp from the file server

	watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

also known as 129.97.129.140, in the directory

	~/languages/apl/workspaces/toronto.toolkit

This release, Version 2.1, is an improved and expanded version of the
previous version, and is distributed only in electronic form.  It has
been placed in public domain by the APL Special Interest Group of
Toronto, and the Toolkit editor, Richard Levine.

Have you tried free software that was advertised as really fast, or
fantastic and gee whiz, only to find that it does not work?  Well, this
stuff works.  It runs, and it runs on a wide range of machines and APL
implementations, because it is written to the ISO Standard APL.
Here you will find 140 pages of high quality material submitted
by a dedicated group of amateur and professional APL enthusiasts
and meticulously edited by Richard Levine.

There are already versions for several different APLs here.  You may
recognize the one you want by its extender, but if you don't find it,
there is a WSIS0 file in the ISO APL Workspace Interchange Format
which may be used to create the workspace for your favorite APL.

The files so far are these:

      3355 May 12 11:03 readme
    488000 May 12 10:23 toolkit.wsi	Workspace Interchange File WSIS 0.
    426656 May 15 01:32 toolkit-.saw	Sharp APL workspace.
    562696 May 19 11:24 toolkit.apl	APL2, PC 32 bit.
    463546 May 19 11:29 toolkit.atf	APL2 Transfer File.
    491680 May 25 20:54 toolkit.slt	STSC source level transfer format .
    475698 May 18 21:34 toolkit.ws  	STSC APL Plus II, version 3, loadable.


Happy programming. 

-- 
Prof L.J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada  N2L 3G1
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