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From: karney@theory.pppl.gov (Charles Karney)
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Subject: BOSS 

Christopher Williams asked about the status of BOSS (the multiple session
handler).

I was the original author of BOSS.  The last change I made was to version
2.9 on August 1, 1989.  This is available via anonymous FTP on lyman.pppl.gov
in /pub/vax/boss.sh29[1-4]

Since that time I have migrated to a Unix system with an X terminal, so I
don't have much need for BOSS.  For this reason, I have stopped further
developement of BOSS.

Glenn Everhart has added significant new capabilities to BOSS starting at
my version 2.7.  The changes between my versions 2.7 and 2.9 are minor and
are appended to this message.  If Glenn is willing, I suggest he take over
as "official maintainer" of BOSS, beginning by merging my 2.7-to-2.9
changes into his verion 2.7d and making this version 3.0.  I would be happy
to make this available via anonymous FTP, if Glenn mails me the combined
version.

   Charles Karney
   Plasma Physics Laboratory	  E-mail:  Karney@Princeton.EDU
   Princeton University		  Phone:   +1 609 243 2607
   Princeton, NJ 08543-0451	  FAX:	   +1 609 243 2662

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$ diff boss.c-27 boss.c-29
************
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-27;1
    5       Charles Karney
    6       Plasma Physics Laboratory   Phone:    +1 609 243 2607
    7       Princeton University        MFEnet:   Karney@PPC.MFEnet
    8       PO Box 451                  Internet: Karney%PPC.MFEnet@NMFECC.LLNL.
GOV
    9       Princeton, NJ 08543-0451    Bitnet:   Karney%PPC.MFEnet@LBL.Bitnet
   10
******
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-29;1
    5      Charles Karney
    6      Plasma Physics Laboratory      E-mail:  Karney@Princeton.EDU
    7      Princeton University           Phone:   +1 609 243 2607
    8      Princeton, NJ 08543-0451       FAX:     +1 609 243 2160
    9
************
************
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-27;1
  124   Still to do:
******
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-29;1
  123   Version 2.8.  June 23, 1989
  124     Set /noescape on terminal running BOSS to avoid "partial escape" error
  125   Version 2.9.  August 1, 1989
  126     Fix error in C-\ C-h documentation.
  127   Still to do:
************
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File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-27;1
  134   #define VERSION         "2.7"
  135
******
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-29;1
  137   #define VERSION         "2.9"
  138
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File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-27;1
  682               tolower(first_name),first_name,ceoln);
  683       term_msg(buf);
******
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-29;1
  685               toupper(first_name),first_name,ceoln);
  686       term_msg(buf);
************
************
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-27;1
  853                     bos,name[kill_proc],ceoln);
  854             term_msg(buf);
******
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-29;1
  856                     bos,name[cur],ceoln);
  857             term_msg(buf);
************
************
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-27;1
  995     tt_chr.ttchr &= ~TT$M_HOSTSYNC; /* no host sync */
******
File USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-29;1
  998     tt_chr.ttchr &= ~TT$M_ESCAPE; /* no escape */
  999     tt_chr.ttchr &= ~TT$M_HOSTSYNC; /* no host sync */
************

Number of difference sections found: 6
Number of difference records found: 13

DIFFERENCES /IGNORE=()/MERGED=1-
    USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-27;1-
    USR:[UTILITY.BOSS]BOSS.C-29;1

