On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:40:28 -0800
Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 11:22 -0800, dave wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:00:59 -0600
> > Stuart Stevenson <stus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >  I am an unashamed proponent of APT so take these comments in that
> > > light.
> > < massive snip>
> > 
> > I can understand. You are good at it and you also have a very
> > expensive and well supported version. 
> > 
> > I don't believe that is true of the conversion of APT from FORTRAN
> > to the present code. It is very difficult to learn to use a package
> > when there is no way to discern between bugs ( inadvertently
> > introduced in translation)  and user mistakes. I'm wondering if it
> > might not be better to use the original code and run under a 360
> > emulator. Slow and sure (?) would be much better than fast and not
> > so sure. I've had a simple move from start point to a line end up
> > nowhere near the line. 
> > 
> > Practical?
> > 
> > I did get a simple square to work but try something a bit more
> > complicated and the results are not so good. ;-(
> 
> > Dave
> 
> I'm a little confused, my understanding is that there are two linux
> APT packages. One that was started from scratch, in C, is not
> finished and stalled, Aptos? The other in Fortran or rather based on,
> and sorta works, Apt360?

Well, looking a sourceforge, aptos includes vapt the visual
interface but the core package is still apt360-1.0.1. not something
different as far as I can tell. FORTRAN AND .asm translated to C. 

Dave


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