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                                   Tom Wolfe
                           Jet Propulsion Laboratory
                               Mail Stop 510/202
                              4800 Oak Grove Drive
                              Pasadena, CA  91109
                                 (818) 397-9280

                            My Extended EVE Editor.

     This is the VAX/VMS 5.x version of the the XEVE spelling checker.

     Some of the other edit functin in the 4.x version  of  XEVE  have  not
     been conver to 5.x and are not included in this distribution.

     The XEVE spelling checker includes the following:

     Three dictionaries are used to test the spelling of words.   A  common
     dictionary  (standard  english words), a project dictionary (acronyms,
     etc).  and a user defined dictionary.  The user defined dictionary can
     be  created/updated  while  in  an  EVE  edit  session.  Utilities are
     provided to build all three dictionaries from  text  files  containing
     one  word  per  line.   The source word file for the common dictionary
     must be in ascending (lexical)  sort  order.   The  project  and  user
     source word files do not.

     The EVE spelling checker also has special commands that understands  a
     little about C, DCL, FORTRAN, DCL and MACRO source code files and only
     checks appropriate things.  For example, The "SPELL  FORTRAN"  command
     checks only comments and character constants.  The special command are
     currently very primitive.

     A separate (standalone)  spelling  checker  patterned  after  the  LBL
     software tools SPELL utility is also available.

     The common dictionary currently contains 91,000+ words.

     The project dictionary can contain 1,000 word (or 10,000 bytes).

     The user dictionary can contain 200 words (or 2,000 bytes).

     The maximum word size is currently 31 bytes.

     Documentation can be found in the file XEVE.MEM.

	Editor's note:
	In the interests of gaining a bit of (badly needed) space, the file
COMMON.DICT was put into a VMS BACKUP saveset with the command
$ BACKUP/BLOCK=4096 COMMON.DICT COMMONDICT.BCK/SAVE
  and was compressed with the LZCOMP tool. It may be decompressed with the
command
$ LZDCMP COMMONDICT.BCK_LZW COMMONDICT.BCK
and the original file restored. This has brought the storage from over 6000
blocks to about 1300.