[5,5] FORMS ----------- Submitted by: Chris Doran Date: June 1987 Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England. Tel: +44 1 467 2636, Telex: 896649, FAX: +44 1 467 6515 RCOMM.TXT Template Readers' Comments page. Much easier to fill it in on the computer than manually. DEC seem to accept them this way -- at least, they sent me an acknowledgement card for a batch of them. DO send in Readers' Comments -- I once spent a whole evening trying to find a bug which turned out to be a manual error I'd found years before in a previous release, but never reported! USSIR.TXT Template System Improvement Request form for the US and UK UKSIR.TXT VAX SIGs. See the local and/or US VAX SIG Newsletters for where to send them. If you produce a lot for the UK SIG, Peter Humble would prefer to have them in machine-readable form. HEALTH WARNING: SENDING IN SIRs MAY DAMAGE YOUR BUDGET. DEC are claiming that more features => harder debugging => increased maintenance costs (hence the 1987 swinging rises). other files Examples of filled-in forms. The files contain lots of escape sequences for an LA120 (and possibly other LA's). In particular, they change the lines per inch spacing, which can give all sorts of problems with subsequent top of page alignments. I have the symbiont set up to do a reset at the start of each page (/SETUP queue option). If yours doesn't, you may need to put the reset sequence at the end of each template file, or reset the printer after you finish printing the forms. A sequence something like: [w[z[66t will probably do. There should be exactly 65 lines of text in RCOMM files, and 46 in SIRs. DON'T add any extra ones -- these counts are exactly right to print a series of forms on 11" deep paper. ** DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE MY NAME AND ADDRESS TO YOURS!! **