Thank you all for the quick replies and suggestions. Chris Moller, Bill Daly - Thanks, "Page Width" (Print Width?) solved my immediate problem, --PW 500 on commandline or ⎕pw←500. 'tr' and 'sed' does fix the spaces and blank line but my version (Gnu APL 1.8 from tarball) does not have --exec option. Redirected output from shell works but I will also try writing to a file from 'apl'.
Christian Robert, Jürgen Sauermann, I have not tried FIO yet but will read documentation and try suggested function. That looks very useful, thanks. When using 'apl' script in a pipeline I was surprised to find formatting clearly designed for a terminal when output was going to a file. Especially when the formatting has the effect of changing the shape of a matrix. Many Unix commands behave differently when the output is not a terminal. Would it make sense for 'apl' to turn off terminal formatting when --script is in effect and the output is not a terminal? -- Stephen Lewis <lewis+...@sdf.org
