To save space, the files have been placed in data-reduced text
 libraries.  They may be retrieved using the normal VMS library
 commands.

    The naming scheme for files is WEVOLxNy.type, where x is the
 volume and y is the issue number. 

    A note about the file format: Newsletters up to Vol. 4 were
 re-entered into WPS by a volunteer: obviously, things like
 photographs couldn't be copied. The WPS output was circulated,
 but unfortunately the sources were not preserved: the material we
 have was taken from the printed output.

    I have taken some of that output and edited it back into
 RUNOFF source: the purpose behind doing this is to make it easier
 for people to format and print the document to suit whatever
 devices they use. Page numbers in the index may no longer match,
 and I've put in extra blank lines and indentations where I think
 it will make the copy easier to read. The goal is to make the
 material easy to use, rather than trying to exactly duplicate the
 original newsletter character by character. 

    Don Stern, the past newsletter editor, and Joe Gallagher and
 Steve Cordiviola, current newletter editors, have contributed the
 formatted text for many recent editions of the newsletter in the
 same form as they were printed for publication.

    Steve Cordiviola has also contributed many of the volumes in
 Mass-11 format, which is in a text library of it's own. You can
 extract the EXTRACT_TLB.COM file from the library which will in
 turn extract everything else.  You may also have to restore a
 directory file with the command

 CONVERT/FDL=EDITIONS EDITIONS.SEQ EDITIONS.000


            !!		PLEASE NOTE		!!

    Such things as addresses of contributors and instructions for
 submitting material to the newsletter may no longer be valid,
 especially for volumes 1 through 8. 

  B. Z. Lederman 4GL Library Representative