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From: vpcsc4@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Emmett McLean)
Subject: Re: APL\11 source now available
Message-ID: <1993Apr17.210947.19928@csus.edu>
Keywords: apl unix  Bruner Reeves Thompson APL\11 source
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Organization: San Francisco State University
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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 21:09:47 GMT
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Its nice to see that APL/11 is available.  It turns out that APL/11
was once installed on the VAX ULTRIX used at SF State.  But no documentation
was available on how to construct the glyphs.  I gathered from a posting
on comp.lang.apl that one needed a site license to get the documentation.
So I submitted a request the university administrator who handles these
things (fbuenafe@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu) and encouraged her to request the 
documentation.  She was very positive about it.  She followed up by 
calling Digital. As no one answered she left a message on an answering
devise but no one got back to her.  After trying a second time she 
eventually gave up on looking into it. 

Knowing this, I asked if it would be ok for me to contact Digital on my own
and persist with a request for information. Our administrators said great!
I called Digital's 800 number and left my name number with a sales rep and
left all the information I could muster about APL from our ULTRIX document-
ation. But similarly no one got back to me.  I also called the APL number 
in the APL faq, got no answer, left a message, and nothing happened.  Called
again dito.

As we don't have any science instructors with an interest in APL the whole issue
is moot. Anyway, is there some product number one can refer to regarding 
APL/11 inquiries ?


Emmett

