CONTRIB NEWS


All additions to "contrib" directories in Poplog should be announced in
this file, latest first. All contributions should normally be in a
sub-directory, where each sub-directory contains a README file listing
the contents and summarising their function. For the more complex
packages it may be appropriate to provide further subdivision into
different directories, e.g. doc, src, com, teach, etc., along with a
single program file that can be run in order to add the directories to
appropriate search lists.


1994
====
Nov 23 (Robert Duncan)
    --- ML-Lex (a lexical analyser generator) and ML-Yacc (an LALR
        parser generator) have been installed in $popcontrib/pml.
        See ____HELP¯*¯_____MLLEX, *¯______MLYACC.


1993
====
July 7 (Andy Holyer)
    --- A package providing an interface to the SPARC audio device has
        been added, in the file $popcontrib/pop11/lib/audio_device.p.
        Documentation is in $popcontrib/pop11/ref/audio_device.

Apr 23 (John Williams)
    --- New directory $popcontrib/ai_through_search added. This contains
        programs from the book "AI Through Search" by Chris Thornton and
        Benedict du Boulay, published by Oxford: Intellect, 1992.


1992
====
Nov 16 (Robert Duncan)
    --- Installed a later version of Richard Caley's Emacs package in
        $popcontrib/emacs. This has some bug fixes, and includes an
        additional command 'pop-apropos' which summarises the help files
        available for a particular topic. Also, there is now a single
        "init.el" file which you can load to do all the necessary
        setting-up: see the README file for details.

        NB: existing users of the package should note that all the files
        have been moved one directory level down into emacs/rjc.
        Personal initialisation files may need changing accordingly.


1991
====
Nov 5 (John Williams)
    --- New module MIT-LOOP added to $popcontrib/lisp/modules. This
        software was obtained from MIT, and provides an enhanced version
        of the Common Lisp LOOP iteration macro. See Lisp's HELP
        MIT-LOOP for details.

July 16 (Aaron Sloman)
    --- Added LIB VED_DOIT, a VED based, extendable, menu facility that
        can be used in XVED across different window managers.
        Installed in $popcontrib/x/xved/doit_menus

Jun 14  (Robert Duncan)
    --- The Edinburgh Standard ML Library (Revision 1.16) installed in
        $popcontrib/pml/smllib. This replaces the previous beta-test
        version installed in $popcontrib/pml/edinlib. See HELP * SMLLIB.

Jan 28  (Aaron Sloman)
    --- Added $popcontrib/vision
        The beginning of a collection of utilities for image processing,
        using the Poplog X facilities. (Based on part of the Sussex
        vision teaching library).
        For details see $popcontrib/vision/README

    --- Added $popcontrib/emacs
        Files contributed by Richard Cayley, Edinburgh University, to
        help Emacs users drive Poplog directly from Emacs, instead of
        using VED.
        For details see $popcontrib/emacs/ReadMe

Jan 14  (Robert Duncan)
    --- Programs from the book "ML for the Working Programmer" by
        Lawrence Paulson installed in $popcontrib/pml/WorkingProgrammer

1990
====

Dec 12  (Simon Nichols)
    --- Installed library xpw_draw in $popcontrib/x/prolog/xpw/lib.
        This provides a higher level interface to the drawing predicates
        in the Xpw library (Prolog interface to the Poplog Widget Set).
        See $popcontrib/x/prolog/xpw/help/xpw_draw.

Nov 28  (Robert Duncan)
    --- The Edinburgh Standard ML Program Library, Version 0.1 (Beta)
        installed in $popcontrib/pml/edinlib

Nov 19  (John Williams and Julian Clinton)
    --- Two Public Domain extensions to LISP added, CLX and the PCL
        version of CLOS. See the files in the following directories
            $popcontrib/lisp/clx
            $popcontrib/lisp/pcl
            $popcontrib/lisp/modules

Nov 19  (Aaron Sloman)
    --- A VED utility "ENTER so" enables you to treat a file or marked
        range as a "so(urce)" of VED ENTER commands. I.e. all the
        commands will be obeyed. See $popcontrib/ved/ved_so.p

    --- Installed a VED utility, "ENTER auto_mins", that allows you to
        specify that VED should write changed files at timed intervals
        rather than simply comparing number of characters changed with
        -vedautowrite-. Draft HELP file is part of the library file:
            $popcontrib/ved/ved_auto_mins.p

Nov 14  (R.Duncan)
    --- Installed Andreas Schoter's Prolog interface to the Poplog
        Widget Set in $popcontrib/x/prolog/xpw.
        See $popcontrib/x/prolog/xpw/README.

Oct 30  (A.Sloman)
    --- Put a few examples of Xpop graphics programs using
        LIB RC_GRAPHICS into the directory $popcontrib/x/demos

Sept 14 (A.Sloman)
    --- Added the pwm subdirectory with C sources and Pop-11 files
        provided by Anthony Worrall Reading University.

June 3  (A.Sloman)
    --- Updated and extended the AREADME file
    --- Added TEACH PROGSTYLE to the pop11/teach directory

May 30  (A.Sloman)
    --- The first two contributions have been installed, namely
        the nlp_book directory and the pop11/ct_book directory.


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