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  ChangeLog
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  Changes between 1.2.7 and 1.2.8
      971212 - disabled Perl warnings 
             - fixed lib/00README file
             - fixed destroyed COPYING file
             - adjusted ChangeLog file to WML format
             - added longoptions to usage page
             - changed -v to -V option
             - changed -x to -v option
             - added -h option

  Changes between 1.2.6 and 1.2.7
      971127 - upgraded to Bit::Vector 5.0b1

  Changes between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6
      971014 - upgraded to Getopt::Long 2.12
      971112 - upgraded to IO 1.1801
             - fixed nasty bug when some slices are used more
               then once (for different output files but one with
               a negation).  [Thanks to Sebastian Wilhelmi for
               hint <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>]
             - fixed Debug output
             - fixed Perl interpreter determination because of
               Perl 5.004_04 where -v output changed.

  Changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5
      970828 - slightly changes the verbose and error messages
             - slightly fixed slice.pod

  Changes between 1.2.3 and 1.2.4
      970819 - upgraded to Getopt::Long 2.10
             - let slice accept empty input files without
               complaining it
             - added RESTRICTION section to slice.pod to make it
               clear that anon end delimiters can lead to
               problems.

  Changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3
      970815 - made it workable under Perl 5.003 again
             - removed perl -c check in Makefile.in
             - fixed distclean target
             - fixed lib/Makefile.in
             - fixed lib/getoptlong/Makefile.PL
             - fixed lib/io/Makefile.PL
             - disabled $Getopt::Long::getopt_compat option

  Changes between 1.2.1 and 1.2.2
      970814 - improved the %!slice support [Thanks to Andrew
               Pimlott <pimlott@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU> for
               providing the patch]
             - overhauled the ChangeLog file format ;-)

  Changes between 1.2.0 and 1.2.1
      970812 - Perl 5.004 not needed, 5.003 works too.
             - added support for ``%!slice ...'' lines which can
               overwrite the options from within the file

  Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.2.0
      970715 - upgraded etc/newvers
             - upgraded to Bit::Vector 4.2 module
             - added --with-perl option to configure
             - added IO package to lib/
             - added etc/crunch
             - added SLICE@ syntax (see slice.pod)
      970805 - greatly overhauled and optimized the output
               generation

  Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1
      970523 - fixed problem with existing /tmp/x in configure,
               no /tmp/ac.$$
             - fixed new-patchlevel target in Makefile.in
             - added fixperm script and fixperm target

  Changes between 1.0.7 and 1.1.0
      970423 - upgraded from Set::IntegerFast 3.2 to Bit::Vector
               4.0 module

  Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.0.7
      970402 - again fixed MakeMaker install path determination.
               in GNU autoconf again. Now it should really work
               correctly ;_)

  Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6
      970221 - fixed MakeMaker install path determination 
               in GNU autoconf again. Now it should work
               correctly ;_)

  Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5
      970215 - changed COPYRIGHT header to LICENSE header in file
               LICENSE
             - changed library hack with BEGIN to "use lib"
               variant
             - made autoconf part for MakeMaker install paths
               more robust, at least for Linux
             - the slice.1 is pre-generated because pod2man is
               broken on some Linux machines
             - added MKDIR to Makefile.in's install target

  Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4
      970205 - fixed the lib/Makefile
             - changed local() to my() where appropriate
             - fixed a few bugs in slice.pod
             - added "make update-version"

  Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3
      970204 - updated to Steffen Beyers official
               Set::IntegerFast 3.0 module from
               Set-IntegerFast-3.2 bundle.

  Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2
      970131 - fixed setting of empty sets where low = high+1
             - added check for existing slice names

  Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1
      970131 - changed signature of rse
             - used new Set::IntegerFast::Fill_Interval method
             - used new Set::IntegerFast::Size method
             - fixed "make clean" inside lib/
             - fixed "configure" target in Makefile
             - fixed "make clean" for t/

  Changes between *GENESIS* and 1.0.1
      9701xx - *GENESIS*

