I JUST STARTED WORK ON THESE PROGRAMS FOR RUNNING A LABSTAR SYSTEM.
	THEY ARE NOT PROVEN, AND ARE STILL IN THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE.
	HOWEVER THEY ARE FAR ENOUGH ALONG THAT WITH A LITTLE EFFORT,
	THEY COULD BE OF BENEFIT TO SOMEONE.

	THE GENERAL IDEA IS THAT WHEN PERFORMING A/D IO (OR D/A IO) ON A
	LABSTAR, YOU DON'T WANT TO REWRITE THE IO ROUTINES EVERY TIME.
	YOU COULD USE A OBJECT LIBRARY TO GET AROUND THIS, BUT IN ESSENCE
	YOU'D STILL BE AT THE MERCY OF THE OBJECT LIBRARY FOR YOUR
	PARTICULAR TEST ENVIRONMENT.  WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO HERE IS TO
	CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT ALLOWS THE USER TO CONFIGURE THE A/D
	DEVICES ON HIS SYSTEM AND RUN A TEST WITHOUT THE NEED TO WRITE
	SPECIAL LIO$ CODE.  I'VE CREATED A SHARED COMMON DATABASE THAT
	CONTAINS ALL THE CURRENT DATA, AND A BUFFER OF THE LAST 120
	DATA POINTS RECEIVED.  THEN I HAVE A MAINIO PROGRAM THAT PERFORMS
	ALL THE SETUP OF THE DEVICES AND THE IO TO THE SHARED COMMON.
	IN ADDITION I'VE CREATED TWO PROGRAMS WHOSE JOB IT IS TO FILE
	THE DATA TO DATAFILES WHEN THE BUFFERS BECOME FULL.  FINALLY
	I'VE ATTEMPTED TO CREATE A MENU DRIVEN ENVIRONMENT FOR CONTROLLING
	THE A/D BOARDS, AND DISPLAYING ANY DATA RECEIVED IN THE COMMON.

	THE USER STILL CAN WRITE HIS OWN PROGRAMS, BUT I'VE PROVIDED AN
	OBJECT LIBRARY WHICH HE CAN USE TO LINK WITH THE SHARED COMMON.
	THIS WAY HE CAN GET THE DATA FROM THE A/D BOARDS WITHOUT THE NEED
	KNOWING HOW TO PROGRAM SYSTEM CALLS TO THE A/D BOARDS.

	GENERALLY I LOOKED OVER WHAT DEC OFFERED WITH THE LABSTAR SYSTEM,
	AND WAS DISAPPOINTED AT THE MINIMAL AMOUNT OF EFFORT THAT WENT
	INTO THE BUILDING OF THE 'IDAT' PROGRAM.  THE PROGRAM HAS NO
	ABILITY TO PERFORM MORE THAN ONE FUNCTION AT A GIVEN TIME.  YOU
	CAN PLOT, OR TABULATE, OR FILE, OR REDIRECT TO A D/A, BUT NO TWO
	FUNCTIONS COULD BE PERFORMED AT THE SAME TIME.  HOPEFULLY THIS
	ENVIRONMENT I'M TRYING TO CREATE WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM.