Transfer of Apl Workspaces: A Useful Solution

Abstract

Most suppliers of APL have not yet implemented the STAPL convention for trans¬mitting workspaces from one installation to another. This report describes three workspace representations which may be used on a DECsystem-lO for this purpose. Two are partial implementations of the 8TAPL convention: one for level 2 of the convention, the other for level 3. The third representation is a terminal transcript file which is to be used as an input file. In addition, these representations may be used to reduce the disk storage required for APL workspaces on the DECsystem-lO.