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Noteworthy changes in verion 940510
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   * A NeXT-compatible NXStringTable object, thanks to Adam Fedor
     <adam@bastille.rmnug.org>.

   * SplayTree and RBTree classes now operational.  More methods in Time
     class implemented.

   * Some API cleanup:  -delegateListList changed to
     -delegateListCollection.  -includesSameContents: changed to
     -contentsEqual:.  -insertObject:atKey: changed to
     -putObject:atKey:.  See the ChangeLog for more detail.

   * Configuration by autoconf in the self-tests directory.
     Configuration script tests GCC nested functions.  Configuration
     script detects NEXTSTEP and makes the appropriate adjustments,
     including skipping the NeXT-compatibility classes.

   * Bug fixes: BinaryTree rotate methods fixed.  Fixed the way
     `ifNone:' and `ifAbsent:' functions were called.  Fixed the way
     long elements are printed.  Added methods for preventing memory
     leaks by unfinished enumerations: `-newEnumState' and
     `-freeEnumState:'.  Several bug fixes in List and Storage; changes
     for better NeXT-compability.  And more.

Noteworthy changes in version `931026'
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   * Installation using `./configure' and `autoconf'

   * New BinaryTree and RBTree(unfinished) classes.  Rewritten
     LinkedList class.

   * A new scheme for holding non-object elements in classes that
     require   object contents; EltNodeCollector class.

   * Archiving with -write: and -read: methods.  This involved removing
     the ability to set the comparison function independent of content
     type.

   * Removed COLL_NO_ELEMENT and friends.  Now there are no arbitrary
     restrictions on which long int's can be stored.  Like in Smalltalk,
     ...ifAbsentCall: methods have been added to replace this
     functionalty.

   * Added a LABMDA() macro for defining small functions in the arg
     position.

   * Removed many ...perform: methods.  Use instead the more flexible
     ...call: methods with LABMDA().

   * Renamed ...Description: methods to ...Encoding: for better use of
     already-defined objc keyword: @encode().

   * New in the Collecting protocol: Filtered enumerating instead of
     filtered shallowCopy'ing.  Enumerations still safe when modifying
     the contents.

   * The beginnings of documentation in libcoll.texi.

   * Many bug fixes.

   * ...and more.

   Also see the `ChangeLog' file for more detail.

