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Jim, We will certainly have to rely on Larry, then. I was working with COMAL as an alternative to BASIC, but only for 7th and 8th grade students – nothing in the least bit advanced. I just found that they made fewer errors and were less sloppy with COMAL. Besides – they had such fun playing with the LOGO-like graphics when I wasn't looking (they thought). I have been looking through the manual and it is definitely NOT a tutorial. The introduction states that it is designed for more advanced users, and I think it is more a reference manual than anything else. It mostly contains a list of the keywords with a brief description of each, and with two or three lines showing how to use each one. THere is a great deal more about packages, since these will be much easier to write with AmigaCOMAL. The system comes with packages that contain the interface routines to : Exec library DOS library Intuition library Graphics library Layers library Diskfont library Icon library Potgo Library The names in the routines are the same as those used to call the routines <continued>