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The APL Archives and
<BR> The J Archives at
<BR> The University of Waterloo</H1>
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The APL Archives at Waterloo started as an FTP site
in the late 1980s.
<H2>The APL and J Archives</H2>
<UL>
<LI> The top of
<A HREF="apl/Welcome.html">The APL Archives</A>.
<LI> The top of
<A HREF="j/Welcome.html"> The J Archives</A>.
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<H2>What's new in the World of APL and J ? </H2>
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<DT> <STRONG> Harry Bertocelli </STRONG>
<DD> This
<A HREF="ftp:apl/workspaces/harry/harry.zip"> workspace</A>
of defined operators
runs under OS/2 (or eCS) for the PC.
This workspace was supplied posthumously by
Zdenek (Denny) Jizba
<A HREF="mailto:jizba@verizon.net"> jizba@verizon.net </A>
<DT> <STRONG> Paul Jacksons Tools </STRONG>
<DD> pljtools.zip
(<A HREF="j/tools/pljtools.zip">pljtools.zip </A>).
<DT> <STRONG> Frequently Asked Questions</STRONG>
<DD> Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
(<A HREF="apl/faq.html">APL-FAQ</A>).
<DT><STRONG>APL 97 Survey </STRONG>
<DD>The results are in. See
<A HREF="apl/conference/apl97/survey.html">Survey results</A>.
<DT><STRONG>APL Bibilography update</STRONG>
<DD> Bob Bernecky has supplied a list of references
about compiling APL code.
The <A HREF="apl/bibliography/index.html">
Bibliography</A> page has been updated.
<DT><STRONG>CAPLIB2</STRONG>
<DD> Thomas G. Smith has produced a new version of APL called
CAPLIB APL2 that runs on either DOS and LINUX.
Look at <A HREF="apl/CAP/index.html"> CAPLIB Welcome page</A>.
<DT><STRONG>JIZBA Tutorials</STRONG>
<DD> Zdeno V Jizba has produced a new version of his
famous tutorials for APL2 running under OS/2.
See the <A HREF="apl/workspaces/tutorials/jizba/index.html">
JIZBA Tutorials</A> for more information.
<DT><STRONG>APL98</STRONG>
<DD>In the summer of 1998
<A HREF="http://apl98.uniroma2.it">APL98</A>
will be held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rome,
"Tor Vergata" from 1998-07-26 to 1998-07-31.
For more information, see
<A HREF="http://apl98.uniroma2.it">APL98</A>.
<DT><STRONG>APL97</STRONG>
<DD>The conference APL 97 was a huge success. It was
held at the Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto
in August of 1997. Proceedings disks are still available.
See
<A HREF="http://www.torontoapl.org/apl97/apl97.htm">APL97</A>.
<DT><STRONG>APL and J ARCHIVES on CD</STRONG>
<DD>The APL and J Archives at Waterloo cooperated with the
organizers of
APL 97 to include the complete contents of the
<STRONG>APL and J Archives</STRONG>
as of July, 1997, on CDROM, which
may be purchased from the Toronto
APL Special Interest Group.
For more details, see
<A HREF="http://www.torontoapl.org/apl97/merch.htm">
APL97 Merchandise</A>.
<DT><STRONG>APL LIBRARY</STRONG>
<DD><STRONG>The APL Software Exchange</STRONG>
changes its name to
<A HREF="apl/software-library/index.html">
<STRONG>SIGAPL Software Library</STRONG></A>.
This collection has been developed over the years,
and has generally been made available only
at APL conferences. Watch it grow.
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<LI>
<A HREF="apl/bibliography/index.html">
APL Bibliography</A> has been expanded.
<LI>
<STRONG>Name change</STRONG>. The first phase of our name change
is complete. We are no longer accessible via the domain
"<TT>waterloo.edu</TT>".
Save these hot links as bookmarks:
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<LI> <A
HREF="http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/index.html">
<TT>
ftp://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/index.html
</TT></A>
and
<LI> <A
HREF="http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/j/index.html">
<TT>
ftp://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/languages/j/index.html
</TT></A>
</UL>
<LI>
<A HREF="j/j3/index.html">J3 Freeware files</A>
have been added to the Waterloo Archives to provide a
"mirror" of the Free version of J3, found on the site
"http://www.jsoftware.com/fware.html"
<LI>A mirror of Waterloo's APL Archives and J Archives is maintained
by the University of Economics and Business Administration
in Vienna, Austria. These might be easier (faster) to access
for users outside the Americas.
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="ftp://wuvieai.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/lang/apl">
Vienna APL mirror</A>
<LI><A HREF="ftp://wuvieai.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/lang/j">
Vienna J mirror</A>
</UL>
<LI>The J Archives are being re-organized.
Users with bookmarks linked to sub-directories are advised
that some re-arrangement is going on.
<LI>Walter Felscher and John Sullivan have each provided an
APL workspace for doing multiple precision arithmetic.
See their respective solutions in
<A HREF="apl/workspaces/mult.prec/index.html">
Multiple Precision APL workspaces</A>. Sullivan has provided his
work in APLASCII format, the representation invented
by Jim Weigang.
<LI>Free version of the Special Edition of
<A HREF="apl/apl-plus/index.html">
APL-PLUS</A> from Manugistics.
<LI>
The APL and J conference in Toronto
<A HREF="apl/conference/apl97/index.html">
APL97</A>.
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<H3>Some highlights from the Archives</H3>
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<LI><A HREF="apl/workspaces/tutorials/jizba/index.html">
APL2 tutorials for OS2 prepared by Zdeno Jizba</A>.
<LI> <A HREF="apl/workspaces/tutorials/cpcug/index.html">
APL tutorials prepared by Capitol PC Users Group,
Washington DC</A>.
<LI>
<A HREF="j/early_j/src/index.html">
Source code for early J (J7)</A>.
<LI> <A HREF="j/help/index.html">J help files</A>.
<LI><A HREF="j/help/tutorial.zoo">
J Tutorial</A>. A "wordless workshop".
Challenging, with a big payoff.
<LI>
<A HREF="apl/faq.html"> <B>
FAQ APL, Frequently Asked Questions about APL</B>
</A>.
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<H3>Who looks after this page?</H3>
These archives are maintained by
Professor Leroy J (Lee) Dickey.
<A HREF="http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~ljdickey/Welcome.html">See his home page</A>.
Comments and suggestions are welcome and we are looking for new submissions.
(We are trying to get it right.)
Send an e-mail message to Lee at
<A HREF="mailto:ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca">
"ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca"</A>.
if you would like to say something about them, or for
instructions about uploading a workspace.
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of
<A HREF="http://www.dcs.uwaterloo.ca">
Department of Computing Services</A>, a part of the service unit
<A HREF="http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca:80/infoist/">
Information Systems and Technology</A> of
<A HREF="http://www.uwaterloo.ca">The University of Waterloo</A>.
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