In a recent discussion with Tech Tool's Jerry Merrill, He mentioned their
plans for the next release of CVASM. First, note that CVASM is a low
priority compared with their other development tools. It will probably be at
least 2 months before the next release. They plan on releasing the '87x
Mathias module next week and 3 other modules over the next couple of weeks.
Back to CVASM, the following is a `snippet' from our discussion, posted by
permission:

>The next major release of CVASM will do away with the internal tables and
>switch to external header files for symbol definitions.  This will:
>1. Reduce the need to release a new version of CVASM each time a new device
>is released, reducing the time lag between spec release and support. EXE
>releases require much more testing than header file releases.
>2. Make the symbols more visible (just look at the header).
>3. Makes it easier and clearer to the user how they can adapt or change the
>symbols if needed.
>4. Makes it possible for the user to reduce symbol table usages by deleting
>unused symbols.

   - Tom


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Tom Handley
New Age Communications
Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)