based on comments from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.

<skip@mojam.com>.  Revisions to the markup to make it pass LaTeX, added
an index entry and a reference from the sys.exitfunc documentation.

This closes SourceForge patch #100620.

Better error message for "1 in unicodestring". Submitted
by Andrew Kuchling.

noted the minimum recommended version in the message.

Various minor fixes

'link_shared_object()'.

methods (but not 'link_executable()', hmmm).  Currently only used by
BCPPCompiler; it's a dummy parameter for UnixCCompiler and MSVCCompiler.

Also added 'bcpp' to compiler table used by 'new_compiler()'.

Two major points:
  * lots of overlap with MSVCCompiler; the common code really should be
    factored out into a base class, say WindowsCCompiler
  * it doesn't work: weird problem spawning the linker (see comment for
    details)

  command objects.
Various formatting tweaks, typo fixes in comments.

Define a STRICT_SYSV_CURSES macro on SGI, Sun, and Tru64, to mark systems
that don't support some features.

getmouse(), ungetmouse(), and window.enclose().  wmouse_trafo() seems
of marginal importance at the moment.

Ditched my old code that fixed relative paths in the Makefile -- didn't work,
  doomed to failure, etc.

the 'implib_dir' attribute is back (only on NT, of course).

Also supposedly made some change to where .lib files wind up under MSVC++,
  but I don't understand how to code is doing what Thomas says it's
  doing.

Added 'check_lib()', which provides a subset of the functionality of
  'check_func()' with a simpler interface and implementation.

and I lack the time to track down the cause.

parsing the sample data once with 8-bit strings and once with Unicode.

This version still includes #ifdef hackery to compile with 1.5.2.

curses.ascii.

connections.

Kludged the extra-wide table that summarizes the manifest template language
  (works with LaTeX, but is an *evil* kludge and could well break LaTeX2HTML
  or similar...).

doesn't blow up.  We don't currently use the 'set_executables()' bureaucracy,
although it would be nice to do so for consistency with UnixCCompiler.

Ensure that 'extra_args' (whether compile or link args) is never None.

to 'msvc_prelink_hack()', adding the parameters that it actually needs,
and only calling it for MSVC compiler objects.  Generally gave up on the
idea of a general "hook" mechanism: deleted the empty 'precompile_hook()'.