
+-----------------------------------------------+
| Greetings from the X3J14 Technical Committee. |
| This message has been prepared on 3 Feb 95    |
| by direction of TC Chair.  It was revised on  |
| 3 Jan 96 to correct copyright notice, misuse  |
| of the acronym ANS, and the section beginning |
| with NOTE:, as requested by X3 Secretariat.   |
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The Technical Committee announces the posting of a file
known as  dpans94.zip  for retrieval on the Internet.

When expanded this .zip file yields the following three files:

	dpans94.doc   Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 format,
                      produced by Word 6.0 for Windows.

	dpans94.txt   This file you are reading now

	notice.txt    a file which reads as follows:

[begin notice.txt]
==========================================================================
Copyright (c) 1994 by ITI, X3 Secretariat.  All rights reserved.

This is a working document of Technical Committee X3J14 which represents
the last draft of American National Standard Forth submitted to ANSI for
publication.  Permission is hereby granted to copy this document provided
that it is copied in its entirety without alteration or as altered by
(1) adding text that is clearly marked as an insertion; (2) shading or
highlighting existing text; and/or (3) deleting examples.

Specifically, permission is granted to use this working document as the
foundation for textbooks, system manuals, and online documentation so long
as the requirements in the preceding paragraph are met and the resulting
product addresses a technical need that is not practically met by the
official American National Standard.

NOTE:  The material described herein is taken from the working paper for
the Draft Proposed American National Standard, Programming Language Forth.
Approval and technical development work is being conducted by Accredited
Standards Committee X3 (Information Technology), and by its Technical
Committee X3J14 (Programming Language Forth), respectively.

This material *is not* intended as a substitute for the official American
National Standard Forth document published by ANSI.  In the event of
conflict, only the printed document (X3.215-1994) represents the official
American National Standard.

To obtain the official standard, please contact:
   the American National Standards Institute Sales Department,
   at (212) 642-4900 or FAX (212) 302-1286,
or Global Engineering Documents,
   at (800) 854-7179 or FAX (303) 843-9880,
and request Document X3.215-1994.  Thank you very much for your interest.
==========================================================================
[end notice.txt]

If you repost this material, please repost the entire original .zip file
as you retrieved it so that the original authentication signature is
preserved and there is some evidence of the integrity of the document.

The original versions of these files are available via anonymous FTP
(login=anonymous, password=email-address) from ftp.uu.net which is
accessible 24 hours per day by any host whose IP address has a valid
domain name that can be determined by the that server using inverse DNS.

The URL for the fille is:

        ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/x3j14/dpans94.zip
or      file://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/x3j14/dpans94.zip

A WWW (html) page pointing to these files is accessible using the URL:

        HREF=file://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/uathena.htm

This .zip file was produced by PKZIP 2.04g with authentication enabled
and, when decompressed, will display:

        Authentic files Verified!   # MYD772
        ATHENA Programming, Inc.
        [followed by the content of the notice.txt file]

Copies of PKUNZIP are readily available on most archive sites including,
undoubtedly, ftp.uu.net.

The TC would appreciate your letting us know how you have used this file.
Comments and suggestions may be sent to either of the following e-mail
addresses:

        x3j14@minerva.com - TC members only.
        ANSForth@minerva.com - TC members as well as many people
           who have subscribed to this mailgroup.  Anything sent
           to the ansforth list is automatically crossposted onto
           comp.lang.forth as well.

If you wish to direct mail to individual TC members, the above mailgroup
lists may be retrieved by fingering the user  ansi  at the host
med3.minerva.com

Best Wishes to all!

