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                           Scott B. Sibley
              Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation
                  Space Information Systems Division

                NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
                   Space & Life Sciences Directorate
                       Medical Sciences Division

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     Scott B. Sibley                   Work Phone:  (713) 280-6426
     2627 Plymouth Rock Dr.            JSC VAX Lab:  (713) 483-5353
     Webster, TX  77598                Date:  03-Jun-84

(These files replace the previous DECUS tape files from Ford Aerospace
SISO (Houston) submitted for the 1982 Fall DECUS VAX/VMS SIG tape.
Hundreds of files have been improved & dozens have been added.)

This directory contains 4 top-level directories joined together to
form one directory submitted by Ford Aerospace, SISD-Houston.  For
convenience, the 4 directories should be renamed back to the top
level:

   $ RENAME []*.DIR [000000]      <-- Rename directories to top level.

The four directory trees are:

[.NASALIB...]

This set of directories contains FORTRAN and FLECS ("FORTRAN Language
with Extended Control Structures") source & object code to support
programs stored in the [UTIL] directory tree.  These files are not
needed unless the source will be re-linked or the library routines
will be of general use.  Both FORTRAN-77 & VAX-11 FORTRAN versions
of the programs are provided.

[.SYSMAN...]

This directory tree contains software to aid VAX/VMS system management.

[.SYSNEWS...]

This directory is needed to support the "SYSNEWS" facility checked by
command files in the [UTIL.FORDUTIL.NEWS] directory.  System-oriented
news would be MAILed to username SYSNEWS.  Non-operator users would run
the "SYSNEWS" command to read a copy of the [SYSNEWS] mail file, without
any worries of updating it.  The well-known MAIL utility is thus used to
organize announcements of system events and to allow users to "REPLY"
to whichever system person MAILed a particular system announcement.

[.UTIL...]

This set of directories contains FORTRAN and FLECS ("FORTRAN Language
with Extended Control Structures") source & object code for a number
of generic utility programs, including the EE Text Editor (ver 3.1)
& the INFO Information Formatter program (ver 2.1).  Also included are
many DCL command files and several documentation files.  Each directory
has a "WHERE." file which may be searched for information local to the
directory.