SYSDOC V14                                       John Williams, Dec 1989

This file should be used to announce impending enhancements to V14,
preferably in the format of a draft HELP NEWS entry. Please indicate
estimated completion dates, dependencies on other peoples' work, etc.


         CONTENTS - (Use <ENTER> g to access required sections)

 -- Rob Duncan
 -- Roger Evans
 -- John Gibson
 -- Ian Rogers
 -- Aaron Sloman
 -- John Williams
 -- ISL


-- Rob Duncan ----------------------------------------------------------

Improved VED terminal recognition
PML Version 2
Decstation port

-- Roger Evans ---------------------------------------------------------

Xpop
    LIB XLIB
    R3 Xtoolkit interface
    Pop Widgets

-- John Gibson ---------------------------------------------------------

Enhancement of interface between Poplog and
external languages, including reorganisation of
Poplog data representation and callback facilities.

POPC

-- Ian Rogers ----------------------------------------------------------
Last updated 21/8/90

EX conference paper             - a week

mnemonic mishaps                -

Build Dec windows demo          - done

Tidy Dec Windows interface      -

Tidy and test XView interface   -

Tidy and test MOTIF interface   - waiting on bobcat R4, then 3 days

LIB * newc_dec:
    Add Varargs properly        - done
    utilise 13.8 conskey        - done
    in-line structure accessing -
    utilise XptImportProcedure  -

Implement LIB *external portion
    of the intrinsics interface
    (according to Rogere's
    outline, REF * XTOOLKIT)    - done by AH

Change Xpw REF files to Pop idiom - done by ASch

Xved                            - ? weeks

X-PWM. Ha ha ha, do me a favour - Probably should be done, but not by me.

Documentation:
    HELP * NEWC_DEC - draft in ~ianr/Xpop/lib/newc_dec
    HELP * XLIB     - C.all/x/pop/help/xlib, but needs expanding some.
         * NEWEXTERNAL -

-- Aaron Sloman --------------------------------------------------------
Prepare HELP V14.CHANGES

Get Xturtle stuff into X library - DONE (only locally)
Document Xturtle stuff

Prevent unnecessary shell escapes in immediate mode DONE

Make ved_imcsh etc cope with changing prompts set in .cshrc - DONE

Fix poplinemax in "==>" in VED. - DONE

Fix HELP LEXICAL to clarify efficiency issues with lvars - DONE

Fix minor problem with vedblocks

Put LIB VEDSET into the system DONE

Put HELP VEDSET in Help directory. DONE

Bring VED User Guide up to date. (started in /csunb/pop/popdoc/VUG/vug).

-- John Williams -------------------------------------------------------

1. NEW VED_?? (user-extendable, uses REF files)

    I've installed the new -ved_??- into the masters, as SRC VDQUERY.P

    As a temporary precaution, I've moved the old SRC VDWHATS.P into the
    library, as LIB VED_WHAT, and restored the old names -ved_what- and
    -ved_whats-.

    The new -ved_??- uses a new procedure -sys_read_lines-, which extracts
    a specified range of lines from a file (or device). Maybe it could be
    useful elsewhere?

    Documentation to follow.


2. RECODING OF CLISP'S IO ROUTINES

3. LISP_TRUE /== [] BUG FIX


-- ISL -----------------------------------------------------------------

Oracle Interface
New Poplog installation procedure
Revise off-line documentation
Naive user interface
Interactive demo/teaching environment

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