submitted by:

                                   Tom Wolfe
                           Jet Propulsion Laboratory
                               Mail Stop 510/200
                              4800 Oak Grove Drive
                              Pasadena, CA  91109
                                 (818) 397-9280


     The following items are submitted:

     1.  [XEVE] An Extended EVE Editor  That  Includes  A  Simple  Spelling
         Checker.

         This is an update to a previously submitted (Fall  1986)  spelling
         checker for EVE.  The spelling checker is basically the same; Edit
         commands have been expanded; Bugs in support utilities fixed; Help
         added; Logical names changed.

         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 spelling checker  has  special  commands  that  understands  a
         little  about C, DCL, FORTRAN, DCL and MACRO source code files and
         only checks appropriate things.

         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).

         See XEVE.MEM for more information.

	[ Editor's note: The spelling dictionary must be built using the
	programs provided here to do so. The wordlist is all here, but
	the already-built file took around 6000 blocks, which was hard
	to justify with the tape being tight on space. Rebuilding the
	dictionary takes only a few minutes.]

     2.  [SYMBIONT] User defined page headers for printed files.

         We have a need to mark files as  DRAFT,  PRELIMINARY,  etc.   This
         print  symbiont  modification routine allow a user to define there
         own page headers (up to  60  characters  long).   Pages  are  also
         number in the upper left and right corners.

         See the comments  at  the  start  of  the  source  code  file  for
         information on how to use this program.

     3.  [DKIO] User mode virtual block IO routines in FORTRAN.

         See the comments in the source code for information on how to  use
         the   routines.   Two  simple  (and  similar)  demo  programs  are
         provided.

     4.  [DEMO] This directory contains short demo programs written to  for
         users.   They  demonstrate  some aspect of the VAX/VMS environment
         (usually system system services  or  run-time  library  routines).
         They are:

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         Communicate with another terminal via QIOW, QIO and SMG routines.

         Create a detached process talking to another terminal and wait for
         it to finish.

         Use LIB$TPARSE to parse commands for a calculator program.

         Establish an exception handler.

         Use RMS to read and write a file.

         See the comments at  the  start  of  the  source  code  files  for
         information on how to use the programs.

     5.  [LINES] A very simple (dumb) utility to count the number of  lines
         in source code file(s).

         I'm always being asked how many line of code I have written.  This
         utility  counts  code  lines,  comments  and white space.  See the
         comments at the start of the source code file for  information  on
         how to use this utility.

     6.  [DAT] Text data files containing the  ASCII  character  code.   To
         make them available add the folowing to your LOGIN.COM file:

              ASC   :== TYPE [xxx.DAT]ASC10.DAT      ! decimal ASCII
              ASC8  :== TYPE [xxx.DAT]ASC8.DAT       ! octal   ASCII
              ASC10 :== TYPE [xxx.DAT]ASC10.DAT      ! decimal ASCII
              ASC16 :== TYPE [xxx.DAT]ASC16.DAT      ! hex     ASCII