Lars writes:

 > PS: What happened to the promised (FMi 2000/03/07) trace package? I didn't
 > see anything like it on www.latex-project.org when I looked for it a couple
 > of weeks ago, nor is there anything with that name on CTAN.

well, what do you guess? :-) it still sitting there waiting --- got myself
completely absorbed in writing code for ORs (the stuff has now grown to about
120 pages dtx stuff but it is still fluid)

so before it waits another set of weeks here it is, it is short enough to be
appended to a mail message i hope

frank

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