I withdraw my request for a quad-COPY. I've built a comparable facility in APL using lib_file_io, a UTF-to-UCS conversion (on top of quad-UCS), and some glue around quad-FX and execute.
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 09:15 -0700, David B. Lamkins wrote: > I'm far enough along in developing a package manager (a lot of the > scaffolding is already written) that I'm ready for the next step. I need > a way to copy APL dump-format files into the current workspace under > control of an APL program. > > It seems that the natural approach would be a quad-COPY system function, > which would do the same thing as the )copy command. > > If I've overlooked some existing way to do the same thing, please > advise. >
