Date   : Wed, 25 May 1983 23:45:40 EDT (Wed)
From   : Rick Conn <rconn@brl>
Subject: Re: Toolbox for ZCPR2

It seems like a valid position to me.  Ideas should be free.

There is already an IF...ELSE...ENDIF processor in the PD.
You may look at the source code if you wish.

The toolset/toolbox/integrated utility concept is fundamental to
ZCPR2.  That is a lot of what it was intended to be in the first
place, and feel perfectly free to expand the idea.  One thing you
may wish to take a look at is TEMPLATE.MAC.  This the a "template"
I designed for all future ZCPR2 utilities to be patterned from.
Among other things, it ensures interoperability within the system
and greatly simplifies the interface problems.  If you study TEMPLATE.MAC
and then study PRINT3 and PAGE sources, you will see how much work
is saved by patterning utilities around TEMPLATE.

I am CCing this to INFO-CPM for general info purposes also.

Rick