When I got up, the morning of July 7th, I discovered my zippered "bank bag", which had fallen from on top of the carryall I have strapped in front of me and been lost on May21st, had been returned and was lying on the ground a dozen or so feet away. It is a mystery to me where it was for forty-seven days; and I was greatly surprised to see it again. Whoever had it obviously didn't do its contents any damage- or much, if any. I don't have cash enough to give out a finder's fee large enough not only to avoid insulting someone's intelligence but also to signify the importance to me of the contents of that bag. In the KJV it says, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous." So whether I have something to bestow upon my anonymous benefactor or not, it is known that God knows where to find them and has the power to reward them. Someone had my best interests in mind when they returned that bag to me, and the least I can do at this point is to make it known why the contents of that bag are of such great importance to me and to the world of truth and reality.

The contents of that bag at the time I lost it were four CD-R/W disks, two bags with 3.5" disks in them, and a bag containing notecards/papers, and this was something I noted in postings to my CQvis web page and my GooglePages DBX notes page at the end of May.

When lost, the CD-R/W disks were (and still are) in the following condition:

1. Disk filled, labeled "VQ 1" (the volume name, not printed on the disk itself), containing scanned pages, in color, of a hand-printed manuscript of a book, "Vector Quintets", that I have been laboriously writing over the last ten or so years, while mostly homeless, and challenged to find time and place to work on it undisturbed.

2. Disk unreadable, probably due to a damaged TOC.

3. Disk blank, probably due to a missing TOC. (Both 2. and 3. had been written to.)

4. Disk never written to.

The 3.5" floppies contained (and still do) the following:

• Computer program source code which I wrote which, when compiled, produces my "Directory Backup eXtension" executable program file "DBX.EXE" as well as the Turbo Pascal Database Toolbox Sort (Borland International) source code module, which implements the Quicksort algorithm invented by C.A.R.Hoare, and with the binary displayfile "DBXHLP.LIB" and user documentation file "DBX.D0C" along with the source code for the program "DBR.EXE" which displays DBX.D0C and a 'map file' of the data structures in the "DBSYSCON.FIG" file which DBX produces. All of this, except as just noted (SORT.PAS) is my intellectual property and is largely dependent on previous computer work for which I secured copyright registration a number of years ago.

• Bitmap graphics files representing tiling patterns (or photoprocessed images thereof), generated by my computer works LS, BX, BXN, LIGHT, KNIGHT, etc., which are founded upon a pattern-generation algorithm which I developed and which is described and exemplified in the book which I authored (and obtained copyright registration for) entitled "A Program Sourcebook for the SHARP EL-5150 and EL-5200 Scientific Programmable Calculators".

• Executable programs which I have used for the purpose of editing, assembling, and linking/compiling my program source code to produce binary files, and which are programs I use but which do not constitute my own intellectual property or authorship.
• Executable programs which I previously authored and which are based on program service routines for which I did obtain copyright registration. Most of these programs are part of the original "DisCQdir Directory Disk" collection.
• The "Pattern Matrix Kaleidoscope" program "LIGHT.EXE", the PMat designer program "BX.EXE", and source or documentation files.
• Disks containing all of the DisCQdir programs, including "DBX", "DBR", "SRT", "ANS", and others which I wrote. These disks are copies which I use as original distribution disks to make copies from for distribution.

When lost, the bag containing notes written by myself had in it:

• Pseudocode, structure charts, data structure diagrams and definitions, ASM and Pascal or Pascal-like subroutines or code snippets, and variable declarations or type definitions, which I created.
• Text content and hyperlink plan sketches for HTML web pages you will find at GAMerritt1.GooglePages.com (now at sites.google.com/site/gamerritt1).
  

• A list of DiskID serial numbers for D/DBX distribution disks I created in Lock Haven prior to April 25th, 2008. This list was not in the bag when returned; and if it is in another one of my bags, I haven't located it yet.

• A list of diskette labels with either volume labels, DiskIDs, or both, for the remainder of the floppy disks I still have.

These notes I made were during the period from March-April of this year, and I am unsure whether notes I vaguely remember making and which aren't there now were ones I moved to another location or discarded. Not much is (or appears to be) missing, if anything; and whatever is gone I'm not going to fret over as long as none of the tyrants making fraudulent claims regarding the authorship of these programs or books which are my work have intentions of using the material I wrote to misrepresent the authorship of them.

::: Glenn A. Merritt :::::::: 07-08-08 ::::::::: State College, PA

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