this is a follow-up to an exchange that's in Bug-apl Digest, Vol 67, Issue
9, subject was 'trying to run gnu-apl on a Mac'
the problem i had and reported was that trying ')in 0 atffile', where
atffile is a .atf generated by ibm ap2, gave me ')IN 0 failed: No such
file or directory'; but lib 0 seemed to be pointing to the proper
directory and the file was in that directory.
it seemed that the problem might be with how i was associating directories
with the library numbers. i went back and set up what's described in the
gnu-apl info as a default arrangement, with a library-root directory
specified in the environment variable APL_LIB_ROOT, with subdirectories
workspace (so as lib 0), wslib1 (so as lib 1), etc. and looking at the
output from )libs seems to confirm that this is all correct. i can do
')load 0' and ')save 0' against workspaces in the subdirectory set as lib
0 fine. but if i do ')in 0' against an atf file in the subdirectory i get
the same error as before (')IN 0 failed: No such file or directory'). But,
if i do ")in atffile" with the atf file in the 'workspaces' subdirectory
(so lib 0), the file is loaded correctly (and the ascii encodings used for
the apl symbols are translated correctly); and if i do ")out atffile" the
contents of the active workspace are written correctly to atffile.atf in
the lib 0 subdirectory. and this only works with atf files in the lib 0
subdirectory
i have no problem with keeping all my atf files in the lib 0 subdirectory.
but what i describe above is not the way )in and )out are supposed to
work
regards
Jeff H. Derby
IBM Corporation
RTP, NC USA
Cell: (919) 672-0962
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