FORMS
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Submitted by:	Chris Doran				Date: April 1988
		Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England.
		Tel: +44 1 467 2636,	Telex: 896649,	  FAX: +44 1 467 6515

USSIR.TXT	Template System Improvement Request form for the US and UK
UKSIR.TXT	VAX SIGs. See the local and/or US VAX SIG Newsletters for where
		to send them. If you produce a lot for the UK SIG, Peter Humble
		would prefer to have them in machine-readable form.

		HEALTH WARNING: SENDING IN SIRs MAY DAMAGE YOUR BUDGET.
		DEC are claiming that more features => harder debugging =>
		increased maintenance costs (hence the 1987 swinging rises).

TRUNCATE.SIR	An examples of a filled-in SIR form.

RCOMM.TXT	Template Readers' Comments page. Much easier to fill it in on
		the computer than manually. DEC seem to accept them this way
		-- at least, they sent me an acknowledgement card for a batch
		of them. The exact format of the form seems to vary from
		release to release. I'v almost given up trying to keep up. This
		is one of the older versions. DO send in Readers' Comments --
		I once spent a whole evening trying to find a bug which turned
		out to be a manual error I'd found years before in a previous
		release, but never reported! DEC seem to be quite good at
		correcting obvious errors, but less keen to add large chunks
		of explanatory text, even when you give it to them. Hence, I
		am now including:

subdirectories	All the Readers' Comments pages I have ever sent in. This
		may save you some head-scratching and/or duplicate reporting
		of typos. There is no significance in directory names, which
		are simply the dates I sent in batches of forms. Filenames
		are the manual order codes in various formats according to
		what I decided to do with dashes at the time. Note that there
		may be multiple versions of some files, where my comments
		didn't all fit one form.

The files contain lots of escape sequences for an LA120 (and possibly other
LA's). In particular, they change the lines per inch spacing, which can give
all sorts of problems with subsequent top of page alignments. I have the
symbiont set up to do a reset at the start of each page (/SETUP queue option).
If yours doesn't, you may need to put the reset sequence at the end of each
template file, or reset the printer after you finish printing the forms. A
sequence something like: <ESC>[w<ESC>[z<ESC>[66t will probably do.

There should be exactly 65 lines of text in RCOMM files, and 46 in SIRs.
DON'T add any extra ones -- these counts are exactly right to print a series
of forms on 11" deep paper.

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