This directory contains the source code, executable
image, special help file, Command Language Interpreter file, and
initialization file for EDT_PLUS, an extension of EDT.  EDT_PLUS
allows the user to spawn subprocesses from within the EDT Editor.
 This allows the user to read MAIL, use PHONE, check names of
files, etc. without having to EXIT the editor. 

	EDT_PLUS uses VMS version 4.x and EDT utility
routines.  The user spawns the subprocesses by using the EDT
nokeypad command XLATE.  In keypad mode the user can define a key
to use XLATE.  The EDT initialization file, EDTPINI.EDT, has
defined GOLD CONTROL D to be this key. 

	To enable this editor, the user needs to edit EDTP.CLD and
EDTPINI.EDT to use whatever device and directory needed, or
define a system logical, EDTP$DIR, to point at the device and
directory.  Then use SET COMMAND to add the verb EDTP to the DCL
tables.  This can be doen permanently by the system manager. 

	EDTPINI.EDT sets up many key definitions that may be 
usefull to any organization.  These keys do such things as cheng 
buffers, copy buffers, EXIT, QUIT, insert a ruler, change word 
delimiters, change screen width, set TRUNCATE or NOTRUNCATE, and 
set HELP Library.

	EDTPINI.HLP is a help file that needs to added to EDTHELP 
and contains information on the special key definitions from 
EDTPINI.  The copy of EDTHELP.HLB can be kept in EDTP$DIR and 
thus seperate from the VMS copy.

	Any comments or suggestions can be sent to:

		    Ted Nieland
		Department of Physics
		  Ames Laboratory
		 Ames, Iowa  50011
		Phone: (515)294-3565