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                                   Tom Wolfe
                           Jet Propulsion Laboratory
                               Mail Stop 510/202
                              4800 Oak Grove Drive
                              Pasadena, CA  91109
                                 (818) 397-9280



     This is and update and bug fixes to  the  eXtended  EVE  editor  in  a
     previous release (fall 1987).

     A bug in the project dictionary has been fixed (over 200 words made it
     non-functional).

     A new memo bullet formatter has been added.

     Commands from several EVE editors found on the DECUS tapes  have  been
     incorporated  into  the  eXtended  EVE  editor (sort a buffer, game of
     life, date, time, list buffers, etc.).

     An EDT type keypad can be made part of the eXtended  EVE  editor  (see
     the documentation).

     Help has been updated.

     Documentation can be found in the file XEVE.MEM.

     Developed on VMS 4.7, TPU Version V1 Update 2.

     The standalone spelling checker now unerstands tabs in text files.

     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 user defined dictionary can
     be  created/updated  while in an edit session.  Utilities are provided
     to build all three dictionaries from text files  containing  one  word
     per  line.   The source word file for the common dictionary must be in
     ascending (lexical) sort order.  The  project  and  user  source  word
     files do not.

     The eXtended EVE spelling  checker  also  has  special  commands  that
     understands  a little about C, DCL, FORTRAN, DCL and MACRO source code
     files and only checks appropriate things.   For  example,  The  "SPELL
     FORTRAN"  command  checks  only comments and character constants.  The
     special command are currently very primitive.