I downloaded COMPLEX.QQ from WATSERV1 a week ago. When I read it, I saw very
strange punctuation, but this was to be expected. I also saw some lower ASCII
control characters, like the diamond in reverse video! on my IBM-PC. I assumed
that they were printer control characters, or would show up as APL glyphs.
         When I printed the file, however, nothing was cleared up. In fact,
all over the place letters, even words, were backspaced over, then overtyped.
Generally, the result is meaningless, though I thought I caught sight of "lamp"
comment characters. Besides this, I saw many cases of nested left angle bracket
         Am I missing something? Has this file been released in "rich text
format" or for a non-PC-DOS operating system? Should I only view it with a fil-
ter that annuls the ASCII 0 to 31's in there? A Rosetta Stone to the riddle of
ASCII transliteration would be most welcome!          --  Warren Vogt

PS. COMPLEX.QQ is an ASCII transliteration of COMPLEX.AWS, an STSC-APL-PLUS WS
stored in a languages/apl subdir. at WATSERV1, in the form of a .ZIP file. It
is said to be what keys you would hit if your PC were an IBM 360 APL terminal.
In other words IBM's APL2/PC is closest modern keyboard scheme to what this
file's literals represent. If it weren't for the irrelevant intrusions just
mentioned, it should be simple to utilize. Any suggestions?

Subject: COMPLEX.QQ : necessary adjustments for use by IBM's APL2

         In my last letter, I requested information on the following STSC-APL
system services, and on APL2 substitutes for them:

         Print , PrintInit , PrintC , []TCNL , []VR

         I forgot to include this one:  []DEF

         Advice on those is especially important, but easy substitutes for
these would also help:   []SYMB , []WSSIZE

         This information will be used to port a WS written in STSC-APL-PLUS to
IBM's TryAPL2. The result, a WS for complex mathematics with forty-seven pro-
grams, will be available on request or at an ftp site.