Source code is available for Icon and for the library. Binaries of Icon are available for several common UNIX platforms. Precompiled ucode files of the library procedures are also available. For the Icon source code, this is primarily a maintenance release. The code has been reworked and simplified to increase portability.
Subsequent reads return the names of the files contained in the directory.
The names are returned in no particular order, and for UNIX, the directories . The program library update reflects all the changes that have accumulated since the release of Version 9.3.1 in December of 1997, and it includes several new programs, procedures, and packages. Jcon News Version 2.1 of Jcon, the Java-based implementation of Icon, is now available. It includes minor feature additions, documentation edits, and bug fixes. JPEG images can be written under Java 2 implementations.