Re: [Bug-apl] Request: quad-COPY (needed to implement package manager)

2014-04-29 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi David, I am glad that you found a workaround. ⎕CP would have been rather tricky because )COPY supports .xml and .apl files. The .xml files can be decoded directly, but the .apl files involve the APL interpreter to execute them (including APL commands) which is somewhat difficult to do (and

Re: [Bug-apl] Request: quad-COPY (needed to implement package manager)

2014-04-28 Thread David B. Lamkins
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 manage

Re: [Bug-apl] Request: quad-COPY (needed to implement package manager)

2014-04-27 Thread enztec
Hi David, I make a fns that copies fns and vars and my data from 'regular linux' files (not created by )DUMP - only real difference is no #! first line) using FILE_IO fp ← 'r' FILE_IO[24] 'cat workspaces/',fn and then parsed the a←5000 FILE_IO[8] fp so far i can import fns and vars and my data