[301,011]  SAN DIEGO 79		SELECT - FRTRN CALLABLE ROUTINE FOR KEYBD OPTION
					SELECT REV. 790621.

Base level:	Version CS1.18		Date:	06-21-79	
Patch level:	None			Date:

Submitted by:	Charles South
		Hughes Research Labs
		3011 Malibu Canyon Rd.
		Malibu, CA	90265
		phone:(213) 456-6411

Description:	A FORTRAN callable MACRO routine to provide keyboard option
selection from a specified list of options.  Defaults are provided for, as
is prompting, recognition & string completion via the ESCAPE key.  At any
point in keyboard input, a question-mark will elicit all remaining selections
which are still not unique.

System reqts:	Approx.  1.2K words for the subroutine.  Has been run only on
RSX-11M, but no known restrictions to other RSX systems.

Documentation:	A .DOC file, well-commented source code, and a FORTRAN test
program as an example.

Status:		No known bugs.  However, if the task using the subroutine is
checkpointed, then echoing of individual typed characters may be slow, or
characters may be lost if accidentally typing ahead.

Support:	A currently actively used subroutine.  The author welcomes
reports of any problems encountered in using the routine.

Current Release Change Summary (since last DECUS distribution):
CS1.18	CHANGED 6/21/79 TO (CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?) FIX THE BUG THAT 1.17
	TRIED AND FAILED TO FIX.  ALSO TO "UNDO" THE DAMAGE THAT THE 1.17 FIX
	DID.  ONE OF THOSE HORROR STORIES...THOUGHT I HAD TESTED THE FIX AND
	HADN'T (AN "@" SYMBOL WAS INSERTED IN THE WRONG LINE).  MY APOLOGIES.
