This is a continuation-in-part application of the following two United States applications, which are currently pending before the U.S. Patent Office: (1) application Ser. No. 08/275,016, filed Jul. 13, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,583,811, issued Dec. 10, 1996 and initially entitled "Transistor Structure for Erasable and Programmable Semiconductor Memory Devices and Method for Programming Same" and changed in a Preliminary Amendment to read "Transistor Structure for Erasable and Programmable Semiconductor Memory Devices" and (2) application Ser. No. 08/080,225, filed Jun. 21, 1993, Now U.S. Pat. No. 5,583,810, issued Dec. 10, 1996 and initially entitled "Transistor Structure for Erasable and Programmable Semiconductor Memory Devices and Method for Programming Same" and changed in an Amendment to read "Method for Programming a Semiconductor Memory Device." Application Ser. No. 08/275,016 is a continuation application of application Ser. No. 08/080,225 filed on Jun. 21, 1993. Application Ser. No. 08/080,225 is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/827,715, filed on Jan. 29, 1992 and now abandoned. Application Ser. No. 07/827,715 claims priority based on Belgian Application Serial No. 09100091 filed Jan. 31, 1991. Applicants of the present application have been named as the inventors in each of the applications identified above. Applicants claim the benefit of U.S. application Ser. Nos. 08/275,016 and 08/080,225 as to the common subject matter.
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