FOCAL is not a DEC product.
	It is an interpretive interactive language
	It was written for VAX in MACRO-32.
	In many aspects it is similar to FOCAL-8, but
	there are both omissions and additions.
*FILE FEATURES

	File handling:
		Three new commands have been added
		The syntax of these is as follows

		OPEN [ INPUT  ] var='filename'
		     [ OUTPUT ]

		BEGIN [INPUT   ] expr
		      [OUTPUT  ]
		      [COMMAND ]

		KLOSE expr
*LANGUAGE FEATURES
	ASCII I/O
		Added format operator of %An
		 n is the number of ASCII characters to
		 input or output per variable

		Added function FNCR()
		 value is the number of characters read in last
		 ASCII ASK statement.

	Multi-dimensional subscripted variables
		The current limit of three subscripts is an
		assembly parameter

	4 character variable names

	VANISH expr  -allows exit with status from a FOCAL programme

	Faster than a speeding BASIC, leaps tall programmes at a single bound!
*OMISSIONS
1)	MODIFY command -If you want to do more than simple line replacement
		use the SOS editor.

2)	ERASE command -Most of the code is there, but it is so easy
		to save the programme and rerun FOCAL that I could never be
		bothered to fill in the details

3)	TYPE $ command -Of dubious value to dump the symbol table
		when its size is only limited by the virtual address space

4)	No '?' trace facility -Apologies to those who use it

5)	LOCATIONS and '*' commands are meaningless in a VAX environment.
