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.TITLE A FIND FROM EUROPE
.Center BBS News
.CENTER A Find From DECUS Europe
.C Jim Bostwick
.C Cargill Inc.
.C P.O. BOX 9300
.C Minneapolis, MN 55440
.C 612/475-6264
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One of the neat things about running a bulletin board is the occasional login
from a distant place.  While the vast majority of our users come from the 
continental US and Canada, there is a small group of irregular callers from distant
parts of the RSX universe. I don't really know why I get such a kick out
of hearing (reading?) from Hawaii, or Australia, but I do. 

Jan Belgraver, RSX SIG Chair of DECUS Holland (EUROPE?) is one of these
very-long-distance members of the RSX BBS.  Although Jan logs in infrequently,
this is quite understandable considering what his long distance bills must
look like! 

Jan has been after me for some time to put up a command-line editor task
called MCE, which originates in Holland, and has appeared on a couple of 
US RSX SIG tapes.  After my usual procrastination, I finally dug a copy 
out of the Spring '88 RSX tape and put it up.  I shouldn't have waited! 

Although I'm generally no big fan of CLE's for RSX, this one is very
habit-forming. It provides complete VMS V4.x command-line editing, 
including symbol definition. Unlike most CLE tasks, this one knows
how to follow along when you change default UICs. 

Numerous command line editors have appeared over the last several years. 
All have suffered from the basic problem of trying to do at the task
level what should properly be built into the terminal driver. 
It is also very good
at staying out of the way of the tasks it spawns. 


MCE is built from very nicely written and commented MACRO-11. On M-PLUS,
MCE can be built multi-user, and in either case is not very large. All
in all 


If you pick up MCE and like it, I'm sure the authors would like
to hear from you (as would all contributors of DECUS software). 
MCE is currently maintained in Holland by - 
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 	J.H. Hamakers,
	ASEA Brown Boveri b.v.
	P.O.Box 301  3000 AH  Rotterdam, The Netherlands
	Phone : +31 - 10 - 4078631
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although there have been several contributors to it's development. 

You can get the latest version of MCE from the Spring '88 RSX Sig Tape, 
or you can upload it from the RSX BBS. Find MCE in DE:[256,20] on 
the BBS. The BBS version is 4.2d, from the S'88 Tape. Also in this
directory is a SLP file to produce V4.2e, which includes my PAUSE
command. Kermit, including support for 'long packets' is available
for file transfers. 

Contact the RSX BBS at 612/777-7664 (612/SPR-PONG). Most of the time,
2400baud support is available; 1200baud and 300baud are always there. 
New users can obtain an account by logging in as user ACCOUNT, password
REQUEST. You'll need to give your address and DECUS Membership number.