Commutative Rings whose Finitely Generated Modules Decompose Linearly compact modules and almost maximal rings h Local domains Valuation rings and Bezout rings Basic facts about FGC rings and the local case Further facts about FGC rings and Torch rings The Zariski and Patch topologies of the spectrum of a ring The Stone Cech compactification of N Relating topology to the decomposition of modules The main theorem Valuations Long power series rings Maximally complete valuation domains Examples of maximal valuation rings Examples of almost maximal Bezout domains Examples of Torch rings.