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Release-2_10'.
Comply with Basis Lib, added a vector type abbrev.

Closes bug #2
Comply with Basis Lib, changed the type of inputLine to return an option

Closes bug #11
Updated version string
Added the Path functions isRoot and {to,from}UnixPath.

Closes bug #1
Documented when InvalidArc is raised
Renamed the type access to access_mode

Closes bug #4
Updated the interface to uses slices, which in turn made the
implementation easier.

Closes bug #3
Implemented the *streamOf functions required by BL

Closes bug #15
Added the function Timer.checkCPUTimes

Closes bug #14
Added the functions

  val toLarge : word -> LargeWord.word
  val toLargeX : word -> LargeWord.word
  val fromLarge : LargeWord.word -> word

To the structures Word og Word8


Closes bug #16
Moved the exception Span from Substring to General
*** empty log message ***
(cherry picked from commit 15e1427ab25cc25b5471a7f87ed68b07984abb5e)
Renamed all .cvsignore files to .gitignore
Fixed syntax in .gitignore files.  It is more strict than in
.cvsignore, only one pattern per line is allowed.
Minor update, mainly to test git
Ignore .o files in src/runtime and src/mosmlyac
Fixed .gitignore syntax, only one pattern per line
Ignore config dir created by install
Ignore generated PDF files