[m-rev.] additions to README.Java

[Fergus Henderson]

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README.Java:
	Mention some more things that don't work, and say that the list
	of things that don't work is probably incomplete.

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retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -d -r1.6 README.Java
--- README.Java	16 Feb 2004 03:55:59 -0000	1.6
+++ README.Java	20 Feb 2004 05:31:24 -0000
@@ -132,9 +132,20 @@
 	deconstruct
 	type_desc
 
+   This in turn means that any other routines which depend on those
+   (such as io.print/3, io.write/3 and io.read/3) won't work.
+
    In addition, the following individual procedures are incompletely
    implemented:
 
+   	builtin.copy/2:
+		Currently only works for strings and arrays thereof.
+		For any other type, it throws an exception.
+
+   	io.read_binary/{3,4}:
+   	io.write_binary/{3,4}:
+		io.read_binary is broken.
+
 	benchmarking.report_stats/0:
 	benchmarking.report_full_memory_stats/0:
 		Memory usage statistics are not yet available, and cpu time
@@ -153,6 +164,8 @@
 		implementing these procedures in pure Java, we have implemented
 		them using a native code library implemented in C and accessed
 		via JNI.  This approach sacrifices some portability.
+
+   This list is probably not complete.
 
 Q. So how do I enable Java-level debugging?
 

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