On May 2, 3:20 pm, urbancamo <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> With thanks to the excellent people involved in scanning and posting
> the VAX APL manuals, I now have a working system :)
>
> However, this of course means I now have a tonne of questions...
>
> Something I can't figure out is how to get APL character overstriking
> to work (for example to produce the domino character, or combining 'o'
> and '*'). As far as I can tell the manual suggests in a DECWindows
> environment that using Ctrl-D between the two component characters
> will work, but it doesn't work. I've also tried the COMPOSE key to no
> avail.
>
> Is there anyone out there who has used VAX APL in the dim and distant
> past who can shed some light? Maybe I'm missing something in the
> configuration.
>
> Anyone interested can see a screenshot
athttp://www.wickensonline.co.uk/public-gallery/VAXen/vax-apl-4.0-1.jpg.
>
> I also have a VT520 which when I startup VAX APL as a VT320 displays
> APL characters as mapped to the keyboard but I have the same problem
> in using overstrike.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Mark.
Mark,
Excellent! Congratulations. Can you post some more details about your
system? E.g. hardware, OS version, etc. I'd love to get this up an
running on my 750 (someday).
Cheers,
Lee Courtney
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