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{note Chapter Status: infinitely better than in old manual

Changes needed:
(1) a lot of explanatory material
(2) many examples (will be tough)}



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{it Warning:  The subsystem within the Interlisp-D environment used for managing collections of definitions (of functions, variables, etc.) is known as the "File Package."  This terminology is confusing, because the word "file" is also used in the more conventional sense as meaning a collection of data stored some physical media.  Unfortunately, it is not possible to change this terminology at this time, because many functions and variables ({fn MAKEFILE}, {var FILEPKGTYPES}, etc.) incorporate the word "file" in their names.  Eventually, the system and the documentation will be revamped to consistantly use the term {index *PRIMARY* Modules}"module" or {index *PRIMARY* Definition groups}"definition group" or {index *PRIMARY* Defgroups}"defgroup."}

 
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