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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 04:59:22 EDT
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  Hello everyone,

  I've been away from the nets for a while, but I just recently became
a member of the BITnet community, so I'm back in gear. To refresh your
memories, I authored VERB, as well as a few lesser known utilities,
such as FILE, UNMESSAGE, STATUS and so forth.

  I just wanted to let everyone know my new permanent Email address,
(bitnet - joe@fhcrcvax). Feel free to contact me. If you aren't on
bitnet and you send me mail, let me know how to send mail back to you!

 If you have a copy of VERB, you might want to see if it's the most recent.
After posting to the net and sending it to DECUS I did find one glaring
bug and one cosmetic one. The glaring bug was ignoring the cliflags parameter
(on aything except cliroutines.) You can test it with a command definition
such as:
        DEFINE VERB SD
        IMAGE EXE$DIR:SD, cliflags(foreign)
If you create that definition then use VERB to get it back you may not
get the "cliflags(foreign)" part, if you don't get it then you should
ask me for a newer version.

        The second bugfix is cosmetic. If you start out with a verb which has
multiple DISALLOWS clauses, then use VERB on it, you may end up with one
(often VERY long) disallows clause (each one or'ed together). If you
have this problem then you also might want the newer version.

        Also, if anyone out there is beta testing VMS 5.0, please let
me know if VERB still works! Of course I'd also love to hear about whats
new, whats changed, and so forth.....

        Speaking of DECUS (I mentioned it above right?) I'd like to
contact Martin Minow in regards to his revision of the Unix compress
program which appeared on the 86 fall tapes - I made some some enhancements
to allow it to work with indexed files.  Are you out there Martin?

        If anyone on Bitnet has the latest release of the CMU PTY driver,
could you contact me about sending me a copy? Thanks in advance...

        Well, it's nice to be back in business.
        Cheers,
        Joe Meadows Jr.         bitnet - JOE@FHCRCVAX
                                voice - (206) 467-4970