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From: sam@csi.jpl.nasa.gov (Sam Sirlin)
Subject: APL FAQ
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APL Frequently Asked Questions 
(well some, anyway)
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S.W. Sirlin     6/16/92

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(1)      APL sources 

APL.68000 (Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, IBM RS/6000, Mac level I and II,
           add in board for IBM pc's): 
     In North America:
        Spencer Organization
        24 Wampum Road
        Park ridge, NJ
        USA  07656
        Phone: +1-201-307-9099, Fax:   +1-201-307-9404
     For the rest of the world:
	MicroAPL Limited
	South Bank Technopark
	90 London Road
	London 
	UK    SE1 6LN
        Phone:  +44-71-922-8866
        Fax:    +44-71-928-1006
        Telex:  896885 IOTA
APL90 (Mac?):
        Jean-Jacques Girardot
        School Mines 
        St-Etienne, France
        girardot@cambur.emse.fr
DEC (VAX APL V4.0, DEC 20 APLSF):
        Digital Equipment Corp.
        20 Old Bolton Road (0G01-1/G11)
        Stow MA, USA   01775
        Phone: (508) 496-9686
Dyalog APL (Unix, APL/W for Windows):
        Dyadic Systems Ltd.
        Riverside View, Basing Road, Old Basing, Basingstoke
        Hampshire RG24 0AL, UK
        Tel. 011-44-(256) 811125  Fax (0256) 811130
        US Distributor:
        MIPS Software Development Inc
        33493 W. Fourteen Mile Rd
        Suite 10
        Farmington Hills, Mich 48331
        US Tel: 313-661-5000, Fax:  (313) 661-5826
I-APL (IBM PC, Mac, some other PCs) (free*):
	Edward M. Cherlin
	Editor, APL News
	Co-Chairman, I-APL Limited
	6611 Linville Drive
	Weed, California, USA  96094-9763
        (916) 938-4684
	IPSA       edmc
	Anthony Camacho, Co-Chairman
	I-APL Limited
	2 Blenheim Road
	St Albans, Herts, UK  AL1 4N4
IBM APL (APL2 and TryAPL2 [free*] for PCs, APL2/6000 for RS/6000, IBM 
         mainframes)
        APL Products (M46)
        IBM Santa Teresa, Dept. M46/D12
        555 Bailey Avenue
        San Jose, California 95141, USA
        Voice-mail: 408-463-APL2 (408-463-2752)
        E-mail: apl2@vnet.ibm.com
        APL2 for the PC is, in the USA, part number 6242936 from "IBM
        Direct" at 800-IBM-2468 (800-426-2468) or product 5799-PGG
        from your IBM representative. 
J & Sharp APL/PC/386 (J is free*, PC version of Sharp APL is free*):
        Iverson Software Inc.
        33 Major Street
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5S 2K9
        416-925-6096  Voice
        416-488-7559  Fax
Sharp APL:
        Reuters APL Software Division
        2 first Canadian Place
        Suite 1900
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5X 1E3
        (416) 364-5361
Manugistics (nee STSC): APL*PLUS (PCs, Unix, VMS)
        Manugistics Inc.
        2115 East Jefferson St.
        Rockville, Maryland, USA  20852
        301-984-5000 or 800-592-0050 or 301-984-5123
        301-984-5094 Fax
Watcom APL: (VAX VMS)
	415 Phillip St.
	Waterloo, Ontario
	Canada    N2L 3X2
	(519) 886-3700
Q'Nial:
        Nial Systems Ltd
        Queen's University and Nial Systems 
        155 Queen Street, Ninth Floor 
        Ottawa, Ontario
        (613) 234-4188)

APL to C conversion and compiler
        Sofremi-AGL
        6. rue Paul Bert
        92800 Puteaux - France
        (1) 47.72.25.13 +
        Telex 612 651 F
APL to Fortran (YAT, IBM VM) (?)
        InterProcess Systems, Inc.  
        Atlanta, GA


*free means you can get it for free from the net, or pay small
media/documentation charges to get it from the vendor.

Experimental:

Tim Budd's latest APLc:
   anonymous login to cs.orst.edu,
   cd pub/budd and grab the files apl.*
   or send a mail message through the internet to
   ``oopintro@cs.orst.edu''  
   with the single word apl on the subject line.

My current modification (3.6) of Budd's older aplc:
  anonymous ftp to: 128.149.29.4       csi.jpl.nasa.gov
  or send mail to sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov asking for it

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(2) Online information, free APLs & WS

1. APL\BBS
    (301) 384-3672
    sysop Dick Holt
    free mail (suggested $24/year or up/downloads $10/year )
    mostly IBM pc/STSC, lots of education, cryptography, DC area Sig, 
    large collection of ws.
2. Anonymous ftp
    129.97.129.140     watserv1.waterloo.edu (watserv1.uwaterloo.ca)
      L.J. Dickey's collection. Current J distribution for many machines
      (and J source), IAPL, TryAPL, RatAPL, APL fonts, TeX macros and
      fonts, the toronto toolkit, some other WS, archives of
      comp.lang.apl, and this FAQ. These are in directories starting
      from directory languages/apl. 
    128.149.29.4       csi.jpl.nasa.gov
      The site for this FAQ, my version of the apl compiler (3.6),
      tektronix/xterm draw script for J. See the directory pub/apl
    nova.cc.purdue.edu, cs.orst.edu
      some NEXT/J material: j.pkg.tar, Visage.pkg.tar
3. Mail server
    LISTSERV@UNB.CA, in the list APL-L, archives of comp.lang.apl
    ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com - mail access to waterloo
4. Bitnet mail server
    BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET - access to waterloo
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(3) Publications:

   Renaissance Data Systems
   PO Box 20023
   Park West Finance Station
   NY, NY  10025-1510
   (212) 864-3078

   (SIGAPL book sale, executive editor of Quote-Quad)
   Robert G. Brown
   116 Bentley Avenue
   Old Bridge, New Jersey
   08857-1336 USA
   Robert_Brown@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu 

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Changes/Additions:
sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov
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-- 
Sam Sirlin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory         sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov

