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                            February 2, 2007

                                WARNING

        This working version is believed to be stable, but
        we have not run our full regression-test suite.

             HOME:  http://www.smlnj.org/index.html
             FILES: http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/working/110.62/

Summary:

    Improvements to language processing tools and installation procedure.
    Other minor bugfixes and enhancements.

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installer:
    - now handles the new ml-lpt-lib.cm

    - there is now a new "library installer" that can be used
      by shell scripts

SML/NJ library:
    - UTF8 structure and signature (from Moby) added

CML:
    - UTF8 structure and signature exported

runtime:
    - added functionality to "shift" command line arguments
      (like /bin/sh's "shift" command)

CM:
    - during startup, while processing command-line arguments,
      use the new "shift" functionality (see above) to trim
      down the argument list;
      this way one can easily write ML code that (when executed via
      the command line) takes over control and processes all
      remaining arguments;
      this functionality is utilized by the new library installer

    - CM plugins for tools (e.g., ml-burg, ml-ulex, ml-antlr) now live
      within their respective source trees and are installed
      by the library installer