TEDI RELEASE NOTES

                                VAX/VMS Version

                                Clair W. Nielson
                         Los Alamos National Laboratory
                         Los Alamos, New Mexico  87545

                                  May 13, 1981


         This release of VMS TEDI is accompanied by a new writeup  for  the
    editor.   The  previously  distributed  writeup,  "The TEDI Formatter",
    remains current for formatting.  

         Several bugs have been fixed.  One change is introduced: the first
    arugment  of  the Set Indent command, "SIi,j" is now interpreted as the
    number of spaces to indent, not the index of the  first  column.   This
    requires  using  a  number  one  less  than  previously.   In addition,
    multiple +'s and -'s now work in indent mode.  The "Tape" commands  WT,
    CTA,  and  CTB  are  added  for  use  with  TI  cassettes  or Tektronix
    cartridges, the latter working at up to 9600 baud.  

         Users are reminded of two differences between VMS TEDI  and  other
    versions: 

         (1)  Replacement  strings are remembered and invoked with the null
    string so that replacement commands may not  be  used  for  deletions--
    delete commands must be used.  

         (2)  DO  commands  default to one line and must be terminated with
    the NDO command (nested and multiple line DO's are  now  possible).   A
    simple DO is of the form 

         DOP*/pat/...../NDO 


                                  INSTALLATION

         If  only  one user on a system is using TEDI, TEDI.EXE may as well
    be in his directory.  He should define a symbol in his  LOGIN.COM  file
    of the form 

         TEDI:=$DB1:[NIELSON]TEDI 

         If  more than one user is expected to use TEDI, the system manager
    should  put  TEDI.EXE  in  a  suitable  library  directory  and  put  a
    definition similar to the above in the universal LOGIN.COM file.  

         Efficiency  advantages  will  be  gained by "Installing" TEDI.  If
    only a few users will use TEDI,  install  TEDI.EXE  with  the  switches
    /OPEN/SHARED.   If  several  users  will  be using it, install with the
    switches /OPEN/SHARED/HEADER.