Version history for the mmorph package
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(see also comments in file 00RELEASE_NOTES)

version 2.3.4: October 31st 1995
    - adapted to latest record/field format
    - added option to overwrite annotations in record/field mode (-O).
    - fixed bug in record/field mode whe line was reallocated

version 2.3.3: July 10th 1995
    - in lookup mode, a prompt is printed only if input and output are terminal
    - augmented bucket size for DB to avoid running out of hash overflow pages

version 2.3.2: July 2nd 1995
    - corrected bug when updating with option -a

version 2.3.1: June 26th 1995
    - more options to handle capitalized words:  -b and -k.
    - changed option -Y into -z, -V into -v
    - improved layout of synopsis and usage
    - corrected handling of escape sequence in strings
    - locate xdr library

Version 2.3: June 15th 1995
    - added record/field mode (determined by option "-C lookup_classes")
    - started to tackle the capitalization problem (option "-B class")
    - option to mark unknown words (-U)
    - option to extend annotation (-E)
    - fixed bug in calculation of CRC

Version 2.2: June 5th 1995
    - possibility to factorize feature structures in @Lexicon declarations:
	     <LexDef>          ::= LEXICALSTRING <BaseForm>? <Tfs>+
      is replaced by
	     <LexDef>          ::= <Tfs> <Lexical>+
	     <Lexical>         ::= LEXICALSTRING <BaseForm>?
    - no more core dump if first significant character is '"'.
    - database files now contain a signature that is checked when re-used.
      This replaces the date checking mechanism.
    - a new tfs database file is created (*.tfs).
    - database file size is reduced (*.db).
    - added options -p and -q to dump the content of the database.
    - added options -y and -Y to do syntax checking and normalization

    The lexical descriptions written for previous versions should be converted
    to the new format; see 00RELEASE_NOTES.

Version 2.1: March 24th 1995
    - corrected some bugs

Version 2.0: March 1st 1995
    - added spelling rule annotations (constraints)
    - added unary rules
    - allow letter strings in the definition of classes
	    Example:  Punctuation: "." "," "?" "!"
    - added option "-f" to flush after each solution
    - added option "-i" to identify input segments
    - looking up words with non declared alphabetical symbols no longer
	causes mmorph to stop with an error. The word is simply rejected.
    - ported to Sun/Solaris, RS6000/AIX, Silicon Graphic/IRIX, Alpha/OSF/1
    - distribution of an augmented sample french morphological description
    - distribution of an example morphological description (german nouns)

    The grammars running with mmorph 1.0 will run with mmorph 2.0 with no
    changes.

Version 1.0: September 15th 1994
	initial distributed version