Edward A. Taft, 111, Manchester, Massachusetts

This is a new version of FOCAL, based on FOCAL W, 8/69,

which has been expanded and rewritten to remove numerous

bugs and restrictions and to provide a large number of new

commands and extended capabilities. Some of the new

features are:

l) Better control over I/O devices, including high speed

punch; 2) New I/O formats, including buffered input that

accepts expressions as well as numbers, input and output of

single ASCII characters, and a tabulation controller; 3) A

group of "OPTION" commands that perform minor functions

such as suppressing or restoring keyboard echo and changing

I/O modes; 4) A more compact extended function package,

resulting in an enlarged user area; also a command for de-

leting the extended functions; 5) Extended command formats,

also a provision for using calculated line numbers.