NEWS: mention `extras' directory

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Sat Aug 9 12:24:37 AEST 1997


NEWS:
	Mention the stuff in the `extras' directory.

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/staff/zs/imp/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.70
diff -u -r1.70 NEWS
--- NEWS	1997/08/01 06:03:56	1.70
+++ NEWS	1997/08/09 02:23:19
@@ -262,3 +262,13 @@
 	  particular element from the old bt_array.  The extra argument is
 	  the element to use to fill these slots instead.
 
+* There is a new `extras' directory in the distribution that contains
+  some additional libraries.  These provide support for the following
+  application areas:
+
+  - graphics using Tk and OpenGL
+
+  - arithmetic on complex and imaginary numbers
+
+  - processing HTML forms using the CGI interface.
+
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