Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-31 Thread Elias Mårtenson
Oh, and one more thing. If that doesn't work, can you give the the escape sequence of what you want to achieve and I'll research it for you. Regards, Elias On 31 March 2014 22:36, Elias Mårtenson wrote: > All right. I did some testing. What you are probably looking for is > "bold". You can exp

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-31 Thread Elias Mårtenson
All right. I did some testing. What you are probably looking for is "bold". You can experiment directly with the terminfo commans using the command "tput". So, to set black background, white text: tput setb 0 tput setf 7 Then, you can enable highlight of the foreground colour: tput bold The co

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-31 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Harteg, the problem with your FILE_IO seems to be that lFX returns 0 (which indicates an error). On success FILE_IO returns the name of the function that was ⎕FXed. Most likely dlopen() has not found the shared library, which can happen for a number of reasons. Work-around is to use the fu

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-30 Thread Harteg Wariyar
Hi Juergen / Elias, Please see my comments below also... On Sunday, March 30, 2014 6:06 AM, Juergen Sauermann wrote: Hello Harteg, please see my answers inline below... /// Jürgen On 03/29/2014 09:08 PM, Harteg Wariyar wrote: Hi.  I just downloaded gnu apl1.3, running it on os-x mav

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-30 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Elias, I am using a standard color xterm as it came with Ubuntu 12.4. How is the standout mode set in curses (haven't seen anything in the man and info pages)? /// Jürgen On 03/30/2014 06:30 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote: What system is that? And what terminal are you using? Normally you'd g

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-30 Thread Elias Mårtenson
What system is that? And what terminal are you using? Normally you'd get bright white by choosing the white colour in addition to the standout mode. Standout mode has code "*smso*" in terminfo. Regards, Elias On 31 March 2014 00:21, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > Hi Elias, > > ANSI (fixed ESC seq

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-30 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Elias, ANSI (fixed ESC sequence) is still the default because terminfo/curses does not work too well for colors on my box (bright white missing). /// Jürgen On 03/30/2014 12:09 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote: On 30 March 2014 18:06, Juergen Sauermann mailto:juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de>> wr

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-30 Thread Elias Mårtenson
On 30 March 2014 18:06, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > > Sounds like wrong ESC sequences for colors. Check your preferences file. > This always happens OSX with a default build. I don't care much since I always run it in Emacs. Anyway, this should not be a problem when the terminfo stuff is used. Is

Re: [Bug-apl] question on []host and few other things...

2014-03-30 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hello Harteg, please see my answers inline below... /// Jürgen On 03/29/2014 09:08 PM, Harteg Wariyar wrote: Hi. I just downloaded gnu apl1.3, running it on os-x mavericks. Took a little bit of thinking and tinkering to get it up, but I have been waiting to be able to run apl on the mac, s