One day Joe Gallagher (the former VAX SIG Chairman) and I were talking
	about the limitations of long strings and changing them in Datatrieve.
	I came up with the idea of creating a BASIC function that would use
	SMG for screen paints.  My first function was very, very simple and
	only allowed the use of the arrow keys and the delete key.  I sent
	this function off to Joe and he converted it to FORTRAN and went and
	added almost all the EDIT keys to it.  Joe's function had a problem
	in that Datatrieve limits FORTRAN's trings to 1000 characters.  So I
	then started to convert Joe's whole program back to BASIC then I tried
	something.  I created a "stub" BASIC function that just calls Joe's
	FORTRAN function.  Using BASIC I can pass any length string to Joe's
	FORTRAN function.  What I should do is (a) translate all of Joe's
	function back to BASIC or (b) use the system calls for dynamic strings
	to allow Joe's function to use any length strings.

	The file EXTRACTED.CDD contains a test of the BABY_ED function.  All
	the other stuff needed to implement the function are here also.  You
	will need to relink Datatrieve to add this or any other function. 
	In the file DTRBLDxxx.COM you will need to insert the following two
	lines:

	 cluster=smgshr,,,sys$common:[syslib]smgshr.exe/shareable
----->   cluster=basrtl,,,sys$common:[syslib]basrtl.exe/shareable
----->   cluster=basrtl2,,,sys$common:[syslib]basrtl2.exe/shareable
	 dtr$library:DTRLIB422.OLB-
	 /library/include=(DDM,FMSV2FMI)

	- Bert Roseberry
	  U.S. Coast Guard  
	  "The Oldest Continuous Seagoing Service"