New (pre-)release

["Andrew D. Hwang" <ahwang@mathcs.holycross.edu>]

Version 1.0.7 is finally available. The biggest improvement comes from
Julian Gilbey's hard work getting the package to build with autoconf and
automake. Here are changes you're likely to notice if you upgrade now:

* To build, use the standard commands:

  ./configure [options]
  make
  make install

  If the build process exits with an error while making a "stamp" target,
  you should be able to proceed by manually touching the appropriate stamp
  file (sample-stamp, contrib-stamp, etc.) and restarting make. (If this
  happens, please email me your platform and version of make!)

* Shell scripts:
  [] The scripts can process multiple input files, e.g., "elaps *.eepic".
  [] Temporary files are cleaned up on abnormal exit. (Thanks Julian)
  [] Output messages are written to a log file.
  [] The options -v (version) and -vv (verbose) have been replaced by the
    more standard -V and -v respectively. (Long options are unchanged.)

* The library:
  There are "surface" and "surface_rev" commands that draw parametric
  surfaces with gray shading. The implementation is a quick hack, but
  works well for modestly complicated surface plots. The file
  samples/extras/saddle.xp illustrates use.


This version will be promoted to 1.1.0 once autoconf 2.60 is released (in
the next couple of weeks), so if you find bugs or have comments about this
version, please let me know sooner rather than later. :)

--Andy

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