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I'm just finishing up the change file for VMS TeX 3.0 (based on
Brian Hamilton Kelly's change file) and would like to get some
comments on VMS TeX from the readers of this group:

-Is there any real reason why the standard version of TeX should
 not be a 64-bit TeX with 200,000-some-odd words of main memory?
 It would seem that under VMS, main memory concerns are not that
 big of a deal. Perhaps someone familiar with TeX and VMS
 internals can comment on this.
-Is anybody out there using an editor other than EDT, TPU, LSE or
 TECO on VMS? In particular, I'm interested in knowing about
 editors with callable interfaces. The current change file
 supports accessing any of the listed editors directly or other 
 editors in a subprocess, but it shouldn't be too difficult to
 add support for other editors.
-Should VMS TeX print characters in the range 160-254? Standard
 TeX, will print ^^a0 through ^^fe for these characters if
 they should appear in the log file or be sent to the terminal.
-Should pool files have an extension of .poo or .pool?

That's all for now, but there may be more to come.

-dh

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